By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 13:05 EST, 27 February 2014 | UPDATED: 14:32 EST, 27 February 2014 John Hinckley Jr will soon be spending more than half of every month outside of his Washington mental hospital as his monthly visits to his mother's house have been extended to 17-days per trip. Hinckley was found to be insane when he shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Since 2006, he has been allowed to leave the hospital to visit his mother's Virginia home but for varying amounts of time. Being held: John Hinckley Jr, seen here in 2003, was ruled insane after shooting and wounding President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and has been in a mental institution since
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Would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr now needs to only spend about half of every month in a mental institution
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He was confined to St Elizabeth's Hospital after being found not guilty by reason of insanity from the 1981 shooting
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Has been allowed to leave the D.C. hospital to visit his mother's home in Virginia for varying amounts of time starting in 2006
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Started with three- to four-day visits and now up to 17-day visits
He fired six shots and one of the bullets ricocheted off the presidential limousine and hit @placeholder.