A shortened version of my issue.
I understand it was long, I'm trying to figure out how to view and edit my original post and make it more concise; here is a condensed version of the issue:
First of all after reading a few of the comments:
Ah. What happens with the psych evaluation can determine what happens with his guns then, as can any laws he violated by having the guns on campus.
I was cleared the same day for that psyc eval that haulled me off to, and I was realeased the same day and deemed not a danger to myself or others. From my point of view and others who know me, the whole thing was blown out of proportion. Also, I was not carrying the weapons, they were in my car, and grandfathered to me when my stepdad passed, and as they were not handguns I did not need paperwork for them. They were shotguns I use solely for sporting clays.
Firearms that were in my car were rightfully detained, as they were on school property until I saw a medical professional. I'll say the whole situation of me being sent to the ER against my will was completely unnecessary, but that being said I understand why detaining firearms from someone being send to the ER by a counselor is a policy.
However, I was cleared the same day by an on site medical professional (psychiatrist) that I was not a danger to myself or others after reiterating the same statements that I made to my counselors supervisor who had me sent to the ER in the first place. I'm saying, that the entire thing was unnecessary. Yes, you'll probably hear a different story from the counselor who ordered me to the ER, but you'll just have to take my word when I say, it was unnecessary.
Today my mother talked with the officer in charge of the safe and he said, that despite the fact I have been deemed not a danger to myself or others by medical professionals, he can't in good conscience release the guns to me due to the fact he knows I had suicidal thoughts, and will only release them to my parents. This is contradictory to what the other officers who drove me to and from the ER told me. Keep in mind, this is campus police, and to the best of my knowledge they are being held on campus grounds.
I clearly don't agree with him but can understand his reservations given the current climate of our society with regards to gun violence. I was in the wrong having them in my car and then having the car on school grounds, I clearly violated school policy in the name of "I know I'm not crazy and a danger to no one". That will be cleared up tomorrow. But I simply question if the officer has that right to deny me possession of the weapons and decide to give them to my parents instead, when I am just as much of an adult as they are, and cleared just as much mentally as they are. Clearly the officer is airing on the side of caution. I would completely understand if someone is deemed a danger to himself or others, but that is deemed by a medical professional such as a psychiatrist, not a campus police officer, or am I wrong about that?
I basically feel like I'm being told I'm not responsible enough to have possession of these firearms, on the grounds it is thought I have the potential to be a danger to others, by someone who does not have that authority, who is contradicting a medical professional who does have the authority to deem me as such. Its very distressing to me to be given that label of someone that could commit an atrocity by someone who has not even spoken to me and is not an acting medical professional. That is basically what this officer is indirectly saying. I literally catch and release bugs in my apartment, never been interested in killing an animal for sport, and would always try not to step on ants as a kid, but yeah I digress.
Truthfully if this is resolved the way the officer wants, my dad will come pick them up next week, who can then give them directly to me, and then I simply won't have them in my car anymore while attending school and leave them at a friends house where they are allowed.
But my current feeling is that my father shouldn't have to be a middle man for this situation. The officer is acting to, in a way of words and pardon my French, cover the ass of the school, so that in the hypothetical situation I do something, he can say my parents gave me the guns back, not the school. I just want to know if he has the legal right to make that decision when I have been cleared by medical professionals to not be a danger to myself or others.
