Hawaii gun permit ruling sides with 'homesick' Navy officer

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https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/11/27/hawaii-gun-permit-ruling-sides-with-homesick-navy-officer/

Hawaii gun permit ruling sides with ‘homesick’ Navy officer

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, The Associated Press
Nov 27, 06:06 PM

HONOLULU — A U.S. Navy officer stationed in Hawaii cannot be denied a firearms permit solely because he sought counseling for feeling depressed and homesick, a federal judge ruled.

Michael Santucci, a cryptologic warfare officer from Fort Myers, Florida, saw a medical provider at a military hospital for feelings of depression and homesickness a few months after arriving in Hawaii last year, according to his lawsuit, filed in April.

He wasn’t diagnosed with any disqualifying behavioral, emotional or mental disorder, the lawsuit said.

He later filled out forms to register his firearms with the Honolulu Police Department and indicated that he had been treated for depression, but noted it was “not serious.”

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[Throck]

1. Mental health is about honesty.

Mental health is about honesty otherwise things won't work out. I'm glad this individual sought help and things worked out like they did.

What should scare people is individuals who avoid help for fear of the above results going the other way. I think too many people who lose their shit live in the shadows and avoid getting help.

All mental health issues are not equal, avoiding help does not work.

[mahina]

2. HPD contacted me to come pick up some stolen items. I saw long guns carried in

And those who carried them came back out without them. I asked a young Marine what was up and he told me that Hawaii law requires you to register every weapon within a certain number of days of arriving. If it’s not legal here they have to hand it over. I don’t know l the details of it, which kind of guns are not OK. In 10 or 15 minutes I was waiting outside I saw five people walk them in. I thought something bad was going to happen.

When I got up to the entrance of HPD ylu have to go through metal detectors to get in the building.