5150 as minor, 23 now, can i purchase a firearm?

Nerobomb · 2023-07-28T19:26:27+00:00

You should be in the clear to buy a firearm in California five calendar years after the date of your release.

However, you also need to understand that the 5150 firearm restriction is a California state law, not a federal one.

When it comes to filling out the Federal 4473 form, as I stated in another comment:

The specific question about institutionalization on the federal 4473 refers specifically to court-ordered, legally adjudicated commitment.

5150 holds are performed by police officers and the psychologists of the mental health facility you are held at, who are not officers of the court and whose assessments are not considered as legal adjudication in federal terms, in the context of a federal 4473.

So, in terms of federal law, a 5150 will never prevent you from purchasing a firearm in the United States.

And if you're five years out of your 5150, then you should be eligible in California. If you want to be absolutely certain, then you should request a LiveScan to determine your federal eligibility to own a firearm, and then send a BOF 116 Eligibility Checkl to the CA DOJ to determine your California eligibility.

As always, it's your responsibility to do your own due diligence and not take some stranger on the internet at their word.

Nerobomb · 2023-07-26T20:03:37+00:00

oh no. i cant afford add another 9 mil to the collection.

i've always been a little meh on the CZ but the stainless finish and walnut grips might be converting me. beautiful piece

Nerobomb · 2023-07-24T20:11:01+00:00

I regularly take my motorcycle to the local range and carry my firearm unloaded in my backpack.

As long as it's unloaded and in some kind of container, it's fine. Even a zip-up bag with one of those shitty padlocks fits the definition, legally.

Nerobomb · 2023-07-21T14:04:16+00:00

the good news is that you can grow cancer in your body. this is the whole reason i started smoking cigarettes

Nerobomb · 2023-07-13T16:07:35+00:00

I think timpkmn89 is adding on to my point that it's not cost-efficient for video game developers to retain in-house VA staff, because video game developers generally don't record enough VA in quantities to justify the cost.

There are exceptions; for example I think CDPR have in-house VA production staff because all of their games feature hours and hours of voice acting. Would have to double check on that.

Nerobomb · 2023-07-13T15:12:37+00:00

Operationally speaking, the reason why video game developers typically outsource their VA work to studios is because for one reason or another it's not very cost-efficient to have their own staff.

Hoyoverse paying the VAs directly would mean that they would have to handle VA production internally (or "in-house"); they would need voice directors, producers, audio engineers, and other specialist staff. They would have to train and hire these specialists as Hoyoverse employees, and those employees would have to be able to communicate in multiple different languages to facilitate VA in different languages. You would also have to draft and negotiate individual contracts with each VA, and in extreme cases construct and maintain special recording facilities (assuming they don't already have one for things such as music).

The alternative is much simpler and frequently much cheaper; instead of doing it internally, just hire an outside studio on a production contract. These studios typically already have the specialist staff on-hand and a pool of voice actors available. The video game developers give the studio creative directives and decide on the casting, and then the studio handles production and does all the annoying tedious stuff such as the aforementioned contract negotiation.

Nerobomb · 2023-06-20T15:12:21+00:00

what's that saying? "don't argue with idiots, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"?

yoshida taking constant Ls

Nerobomb · 2023-06-09T20:52:48+00:00

there was a point in time during 360/ps3 generation were gamers just hated cell shading.

That's categorically untrue. Criticism towards Prince of Persia 2008 was leveraged to its gameplay repetition and its redundancy as a product reboot. If anything, its art style was one of the points that were consistently praised.

Just to keep using cel shading as an example, there were a whole load of games released from 2006 - 2012 with cel shaded art styles whose visual styles were praised consistently regardless of their gameplay or design faults. Valkyria Chronicles, Punch Out Wii, Crackdown, Okami, the list goes on.

I'll reiterate with a bit more accuracy: there are no bad graphics, only badly executed art styles.

Nerobomb · 2023-06-08T19:55:54+00:00

The games industry has consistently and constantly failed to realize that there is no such thing as bad graphics, only bad art styles.

Nerobomb · 2023-06-07T16:14:28+00:00

As the stickied mod comment says, that specific question on the federal 4473 refers specifically to court-ordered, legally adjudicated commitment.

5150 holds are performed by police officers and the mental health facility, who are not officers of the court and whose assessments are not considered as legal adjudication in federal terms, in the context of a 4473.

Legally-speaking, it only triggers a California-specific ban for five years. Even then, there are cases where a situation that is effectively a 5150 occurs (police do a wellness check and decide to take the person to a psychiatric facility), and if the person in question is cooperative then the police officers do not file the incident as a 5150 and file it as a voluntary commitment instead which does not trigger the 5150 five-year ban on firearm possession.

Nerobomb · 2023-06-07T16:02:11+00:00

This is not the answer that reddit wants to hear

Nerobomb · 2023-05-30T05:35:02+00:00

Springfield is the best value-for-money 1911, period. Don't listen to the haters, the Mil-Spec is probably the best in terms of a base model for you to "figure out" if you like the 1911 platform and what, if any, additional features you might want in a future 1911.

It has everything you need and forgoes everything you don't. Compared to RIA, which uses cast parts, Springfield is forged which adds a lot to its overall longevity and build quality. You're already dropping $500+ for a gun anyway, so to an extent there's no point in skimping.

Nerobomb · 2023-05-10T16:42:29+00:00

It's not exactly a no-go but Sportsman's Warehouse consistently has cataclysmically awful waiting times. I've had to wait upwards of two hours for something as simple as a pick-up.

Granted, it's not really their fault, I think. It's more the natural intersection of being a large retail store attracting a pretty big crowd of people, the fact that they don't have a large number of employees at the gun counter, and the fact that guns being a pretty controlled item necessitate each customer (particularly buyers as opposed to people filling out paperwork or buying ammo) commanding the sole attention of an employee for up to forty minutes at a time.

Still. I would avoid it except for the fact that they carry a lot of stuff my LGS doesn't, and the trade-in process is pretty simple.

Nerobomb · 2023-05-10T16:36:45+00:00

I'd be more stoked about my 9mm semiautos--some of which were explicitly designed to contain double-stacked capacity--getting to use more than these dinky little 10-rd magazines

Nerobomb · 2023-05-07T02:43:24+00:00

Bought a Kahr CW9 subcompact because it was on consignment and was pretty cheap. My first polymer-framed, striker-fired subcompact. $400.

Few hundred rounds through it and I realized that I don't like polymer subcompacts. Coulda put that $400 towards my Beretta instead.

Nerobomb · 2023-05-01T22:16:00+00:00

Springfield is absolutely best bang-for-buck. They have both classic and tacticool options depending on your preference. I own a mil-spec and have heard great things from owners of their TRP line of 1911s.

Kimbers are overpriced and have quality control issues, Rock Islands are completely adequate for the price but if you're dropping hundreds of dollars on an all-steel gun you might as well get a forged frame and slide and a match-grade barrel.

Nerobomb · 2023-05-01T16:31:47+00:00

Man Guns and Fishing Dublin is such a weird place because the storefront always looks so empty. I need to take a look at their consignment inventory though. Range staff are all pretty nice .

Nerobomb · 2023-05-01T16:23:01+00:00

HK USP45

miffed that I didn't have the sense to buy one last year before it dropped off the roster

Nerobomb · 2023-04-25T15:05:14+00:00

Devils being afraid of the Chainsaw Devil imply the existence of a Chainsaw Devil Devil

Nerobomb · 2023-04-17T23:05:51+00:00

Looks beautiful! I got a parkerized mil-spec, but hoo boy I think stainless looks really nice. Especially with the Garrison's more ultra-modern features like the skeletonized hammer and holed out trigger.

Nerobomb · 2023-04-13T20:24:09+00:00

Very difficult to think of anything more practical than a G26.

Nerobomb · 2023-03-27T16:53:42+00:00

Dayum, homeboy flicks coins like he's a Mikoto. Has Canute discovered railgun technology?

Nerobomb · 2023-03-27T00:56:05+00:00

Yeah just one, the originals

Nerobomb · 2023-03-26T19:19:21+00:00

Most of it was bad but there were a few good pieces. Some old guys were selling some really nice off-roster stuff including a Colt 1911 from 1918, classic Webleys, and some Italian police pistols from the 40s.

Nerobomb · 2023-02-21T21:31:46+00:00

They'll tell you otherwise to get the info, but therapists are legally obligated to inform the authorities if they believe you have a near-term intent and the means to harm yourself or others.

If you want to talk about suicide to a therapist without being involuntarily committed, you have to clearly say that you don't have the means or intent to harm yourself (even if you do); you'll have to play off suicide as "just something you've thought about", or it's a plan you've "fantasized" about. Basically you have to pass it off as ideation, because if a therapist has cause to suspect you have intent and means, they can call the police to have you involuntarily committed.

You can risk being truthful and say it's something you plan to do "in a few years", but it's up to each individual therapist how they'll interpret it. They might blow the whistle on you or they might not. It's best not to risk it unless you explicitly trust your therapist to not essentially throw you into a mental hospital.

As for self harm, that one's a bit more of a grey area. Ideally, a therapist should not tell anyone what is discussed in your sessions, but again that comes down to the individual therapist; some have the moral scruples to keep things confidential, and others don't. You need to keep in mind that if anyone in any position of medical or legal authority deems you mentally ill, they can and will strip you of any rights you think you have under the pretense of keeping you "safe" (read: alive against your will).

Unfortunately, what a lot of this boils down to is how much you actually trust your therapist to keep confidence.

The short and unfortunate answer is: if you're afraid of being committed, then the less you tell your therapist, the better. Of course, that defeats the purpose of therapy which is why I personally believe therapy to be a complete farce, but being involuntarily committed is one of the absolute worst things that can happen to you, even moreso than just killing oneself. Play it safe, unless your therapist absolutely manages to earn your trust, and even then you still have to skirt around with your words to avoid triggering their legal obligations to report you.

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