Gun bill targets mentally ill

KnoxNews: State: "A legislator who has been pushing to legalize the carrying of guns in state parks says he now wants to block the mentally ill from buying weapons.

'Right now, you can get out of a mental institution in the morning and buy a gun that afternoon,' said Rep. Frank Niceley, R-Strawberry Plains. 'I'm a so-called gun nut, and I think that's just wrong.'

But Sita Diehl, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Tennessee, said that reporting records of mental illness to government officials as Niceley proposes is a misguided idea."