Dim logic...

A person is too impulsive and unstable to purchase a gun
But has the presence of mind to go the county and put himself on the do-not-buy list because that's exactly what suicidal people think about; all the ways to not commit suicide while they're contemplating committing suicide.

Did he drive there?
Pass any liquor stores? Pharmacies? Bridges (over or under in FL)?


And after filing out the paperwork, the county clerk lets the suicidal person just... leave? To go back into the world and be impulsive and unstable.


They aren't this stupid so I'm assuming they are setting up the mechanism precisely for abuse. It's a framework for someone who isn't LE to submit a disqualifying record to NICS.