The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a man who was briefly committed to a mental institution in 1986 has the right to own a firearm. Clifford Charles Tyler of Hillsdale County Michigan was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital for a month in the ‘80s after a divorce left him suicidal, according to gun writer Chris Eger. Tyler recently tried to buy a gun, but was denied. However, he could not appeal his designation and prove to the federal government that he was fit to own a gun. “The government’s interest in keeping firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill is not sufficiently related to depriving the mentally healthy, who had a distant episode of commitment, of their constitutional rights,” Judge Danny Boggs wrote in the ruling. More…