Volume 8:2 ✦ Articles The Dangerousness Myth: How Courts and Congress Routinely Impose Lifetime Federal Firearm Bans on the Mentally Ill Vol. 8 No. 2 ✦ May 2022 ✦ This article identifies the most damaging forces to gun rights for the mentally ill in the USA. Moreover, the American civil commitment adjudicatory system is critiqued, how state courts routinely apply the dangerousness standard … Robert E. Ranney Download PDF