I can’t decide whether it’d be funnier if Phil is just playing pretend badass again and is faking gun ownership or if he actually owns a gun, thus breaking the law because he has been committed multiple times.
Also, I’m not a Yankee-doodle so I’m not sure, would Phil getting tardbux for being a huge autist qualify him as mentally deficient, ‘cause I know that prohibits you from owning a gun as well.
The term under US federal law for a person banned for owning firearms for reasons of mental defect is "adjudicated as a mental defective". This is defined as:
(a) A determination by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority that a
person, as a result of marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease:
(1) Is a danger to himself or to others; or
(2) Lacks the mental capacity to contract or manage his own affairs.
(b) The term shall include -
(1) A finding of insanity by a court in a criminal case; and
(2) Those
persons found incompetent to stand trial or found not guilty by reason of lack of mental responsibility pursuant to articles 50a and 72b of the Uniform Code of Military Justice,
10 U.S.C.
850a,
876b.
The Social Security disability program determines whether an individual is able to engage in "substantial gainful activity", which isn't the same thing even when the inability to engage in substantial gainful activity is caused by mental issues. Certainly there are disabled, mentally ill Americans posting on Kiwi Farms who are lawful firearm owners. Phil in any case is not a danger to anyone, has not been found incompetent to manage his own affairs (which would have earned him a tard wrangler), has never even gone to court for anything despite his criminal posturing let alone been declared legally insane, and God knows he certainly has never been subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.