Regulatory definition of section 922(g)(4), not text from section 921(a)(4), which defines destructive device. A diagnosis alone does not establish the required adjudication. Apply any valid statutory relief or record-disregard provision before treating the disability as operative.
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has been adjudicated as a mental defective
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