Memorandum Opinion In Franklin v. United States, et al.

This ruling was issued on December 21, 2017, by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The court focused on whether an involuntary psychiatric hold for evaluation met the state's definition of an involuntary civil commitment. The plaintiff in the case had been subject to an involuntary psychiatric evaluation hold 10 years before seeking to purchase a firearm. Based on the plaintiff's involuntary psychiatric evaluation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) denied the purchase on the grounds that the involuntary evaluation was an involuntary commitment. The court disagreed with ATF because . . .