Barak is raising perfectly valid issues. If you make mental health a requirement, you've set the stage for having a very arbitrary psych evaluation as a precondition for owning a firearm.
The 2A right is not absolute, any more than the free speech right is absolute. Narrowly tailored restrictions are not necessarily infringement.
Unreasonable:
High tax and background check for suppressors.
Prior restraint on ownership in the form of FOID cards.
Prohibition of all but state approved firearms.
The whole Youth Handgun Act.
The Lautenberg Amendment.
Absolutely no defined line between occasional personal sales and commercial sales.
Use of Disorderly Conduct laws to harass legal owners.
Licensing of concealed carry.
Prohibition of commercial firearm sales to 18-21 year olds.
No mechanism for restoring the 2A right, once lost because of a felony.
Harassment of FFLs over innocuous errors.
Reasonable:
Violent felons can't possess firearms or ammunition.
Prohibition of firearm discharge within city limits.
I wouldn't say a mental health assessment is necessarily arbitrary. No more so than any adjudication of capacity---such as insanity for example. The issue ultimately is what restrictions, if any, comport with the true and correct intent of the Founders?
