Gun law question ?

The second amendment doesn't apply to mentally ill people unfortunately and that's exactly why no one has a right to say it's a right to protect yourself otherwise people with mental illnesses would also have the same right.

And not only does it mean if you put yourself in it but if you were placed in a mental institution as a child by child protective services you're screwed over too.

And that's why I believe a good bit of mentally disabled people do not support the second amendment because if it doesn't apply to them why should it apply to anyone.

Can you cite the law?....................

Your understanding is correct.  In one breath you say "ever been PUT in a mental institution."  Your next statement is "chose to go."  It can't be both.  But, yes, former inmates in mental health institutions cannot own guns.  I hate to be the one to tell you but being FORCED into an institution for "two weeks" is a last ditch treatment for OCD/anxiety/whatever else.

cause they dont want you to have a gun around

Its probably best if people with mental illness don't have guns.

Well sort of.  The exact wording is “adjudicated as a mental defective” or “committed to a mental institution���

So just going to one on your own shouldn't qualify.  You certainly were adjudicated and you weren't committed unless you took a really open ended view of that wording.

Voluntary commitment to a mental hospital is not the same as 'involuntary commitment.' One is a medical treatment that does not disqualify a person from gun rights, the other is a disqualifying factor in which the law has determined a person to be mentally defective or a serious and demonstrated chronic danger to one's self or others.

*Update. Below is the actual ATF .pdf page where the difference between 'voluntary' and 'involuntary' commitment is explained.

thats cause theyre afraid you will use it on yourself