Handwaving Freakoutery points out the sheer madness/utter stupidity [pick one] of the demoncrat's new proposal (H.R. 127, alluded to above) for all gun owners to get psych evals.

The proposal (as drafted) would require the BATF to conduct 420 million psych evals. Each evaluation takes 30-90 minutes. For the sake of argument, let's ball-park it at an hour.

There are 106,000 registered psychologists in the US of A, and if every damn one of them did nothing but BATF psych evals for 40 hours a week (@ one eval per hour), based on the federal government's standard 1960-hour work year, it would take roughly two years for each of them to perform their 3,962 delegated assessments. Which represents 214,285 work-years of manpower invested.

Further, as a breed psychologists average making $105,000 a year. So the total cost of this mind-fuck would come to $22.5 billion USD. Which is enough money to build two bases on the moon.

But that's only if the BATF can muster enough efficiency to keep to a regular one-applicant-per-hour schedule (figure the odds!).

And while this is going on there'll be no psychologists available to care for the 45-ish million Americans with mental conditions.

On the up-side, according to the best scientifically-conducted research available, in a country of 330 million people, it potentially could save 1600 people per year. Which brings the cost per life saved to $14 million USD. For the same $14 million they could instead treat 93 cancer patients.

If this is a legitimate effort at improving the safety of the general populace, it's incredibly inept to the point of being vulgar. But we both know that's not what this is about, this is just another attempt to separate American citizens from their right to arm themselves against this very potentiality: government run amuck.