Gun violence is a major public health problem in our country. Recent data indicate that 19,392 people used a gun to kill themselves in 2010, and 11,078 killed someone else with a firearm (1). In 2003, the homicide rate in the United States was seven times higher than the average of other high-income countries (2). Although concern is understandably heightened when mass tragedies occur, the daily occurrence of scores of murders and suicides due to the use of guns rarely gets the attention afforded mass tragedies. Nevertheless, reports of mass shootings and other serious firearm-related violence, such as the Columbine shootings of 1999, the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007, the Aurora movie theater shooting of 2012, and the Newtown elementary school shooting in 2012, have focused on the perpetrators’ alleged mental disturbance or mental disorder. Increasingly negative views of mental disorders have resulted from media coverage of these incidents (3). Taken together, these tragic incidents have raised growing concern about access to firearms specifically by people with mental disorders. Along with these concerns have come a host of collateral issues that have the potential to expose persons with mental disorders to greater stigma based on erroneous views that mental disorder is a primary driver of firearm violence