§ 11-47-6 - Mental incompetents, drug addicts, and drunkards prohibited from possession.
SECTION 11-47-6
§ 11-47-6 Mental incompetents, drugaddicts, and drunkards prohibited from possession. – No person who is under guardianship or treatment or confinement by virtue ofbeing a mental incompetent, or who has been adjudicated or is under treatmentor confinement as a drug addict, or who has been adjudicated or is undertreatment or confinement as an habitual drunkard, shall purchase, own, carry,transport, or have in his or her possession or under his or her control anyfirearm. Any person affected by the provisions of this section, other than aperson who has been pronounced criminally insane by competent medicalauthority, after the lapse of a period of five (5) years from the date of beingpronounced cured by competent medical authority, may, upon presentation of anaffidavit issued by competent medical authority to the effect that he or she isa mentally stable person and a proper person to possess firearms, makeapplication for the purchase of the firearm(s). Any person affected by theprovisions of this section, in making application for the purchase of firearmsand in executing the application, voluntarily waives his or her right to refuseor refrain from disclosing any confidential information, including, but notlimited to, any information arising from the physician-patient relationship,pertinent to a determination by the proper authorities regarding the approvalor disapproval of this application. Any person affected by the provisions ofthis section, in making application for the purchase of firearms and inexecuting the application, further agrees to allow the proper authorities toinvestigate any and all medical records of the applicant pertinent to adetermination by the authorities regarding the approval or disapproval of thisapplication. In the event that the application is approved, and if the personhas no other disqualifying record, he or she will be allowed to purchase andpossess firearms.