Colorado’s red flag gun law reportedly should have been triggered against the Colorado Springs shooting suspect, but law enforcement and family failed to do so.
Anderson Lee Aldrich was arrested in June 2021 for threatening to harm his mother with a homemade bomb and other weapons, according to a report by the Associated Press. Prosecutors did not pursue any charges against Aldrich in the case.
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The Colorado red flag law is designed to allow weapons to be confiscated from people who show evidence they are a “significant risk to self or others by having a firearm,” according to the law. The prior threat would have likely been enough to justify a red flag for a family member or law enforcement officer to take action.
Courts in the Centennial State gave out 151 gun surrender orders since the red flag law took effect in 2019 through 2021, per the report.
Colorado has a history of mass shootings, most notably with the Columbine school shooting in 1999, which killed 13 people, and the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting, which killed 12 people.
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Authorities are still investigating the motive of the shooting Saturday night that killed five people and injured dozens of others.
