It's still not that easy, let's say you have depression but you got over it by going to therapy and shit like that. >Try to get gun >"Lol you had depression" >No guns for you Same thing imply's for veterans with PTSD, yeah you went to therapy to get over it, yeah you finally copied with the past , yeah your perfectly normal now but still no guns4u Also what a guy on /k/ said about the welfare part [quote]It's in the grey area of, you haven't done anything wrong, but someone (your family/coworkers/friends) has told them that you're acting crazy or suicidal or you haven't responded to calls or shown up to work in a while, so the police pay you a visit and talk to you. You can just tell them to -blam!- off in most cases if they don't see anything really wrong when they show up, but they generally conduct the whole thing so earnestly and diplomatically that people don't feel the need to. It's actually kind of a public service thing they do, in that it's useful. It's part of how they find out about old people who died weeks ago and no one noticed, for example, or lonely people who hanged themselves. But yeah, making it so it becomes a gun check would be -blam!-ed up/[/quote] Also it's one way to get killed on someones doorsetep