A judge reinstated a pistol permit for a woman and ordered that she be given back the weapons taken away from her after state officials reported she had been involuntarily committed to a hospital for a mental illness.
Yates County Court Judge W. Patrick Falvey said it was clear from medical records that Donna McKay voluntarily checked herself into a hospital in Penn Yan in April 2015 while suffering from an anxiety attack, possibly triggered by cold medicine containing codeine. She was assigned to the psychiatric floor of the hospital during her brief stay.
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