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    Default FOID Card and Mental Health

    My question involves civil rights in the State of: Illinois

    So, I am 21 and applying for my FOID card in the state of Illinois to legally buy firearms and of course ammunition. I have no rap sheet of any kind, not even a speeding ticket, but I have one issue that I do not know how to handle.

    Question 3 on the application states: "In the past 5 years, have you been a patient in any medical facility or part of any medical facility used primarily for the care or
    treatment of persons for mental illness?"

    Now, in the past 6 months I have visited two psychiatrists. Over the summer I realized that I was never going to finish my college career without some type of help for my extreme ADD. (I am not hyperactive, not ADHD). I was not happy with the first psychiatrist and a couple months later went to another. I now take meds for ADD and they work great. Issue solved.

    Now, what should I put for the question? There is no definitive answer and the state of IL doesn't do anything to try and explain the questions. When I read the question, I immediately think of someone going to a hospital for trying to hurt themselves, or someone who's been in a psychiatric ward, etc. What about my situation?

    Another question is the word facility. Merriam Webster definition 4b states: "something (as a hospital) that is built, installed, or established to serve a particular purpose"

    Now both places I went to are complexes with multiple offices inside. They are not buildings that are dedicated to psychiatry. Matter of fact, the current place I go is an office for both a psychiatrist and eye doctor.

    I know if I answer yes for the question there is a huge chance I will get denied. They also want documentation if you answer yes for anything. I do not want the government having my medical records.

    If I put no, am I lying? Could I get off on the "facility" definition? Are they talking about in-patients when they say "patient"?

    Thanks

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    Default Re: FOID Card and Mental Health

    I would try contacting the state to confirm, but I would personally read that in light of 430 ILCS 65/4(a)(2)(iv) - that an applicant is to submit evidence that "He or she has not been a patient in a mental institution within the past 5 years and he or she has not been adjudicated as a mental defective". That is, I interpret the statute as contemplating inpatient treatment. Unfortunately I don't see an authoritative source addressing the language.

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