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   From: bud_frowley2@aggregoat.con   
      
   On 4/18/2021 7:14 PM, Ted wrote:   
   > On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:16:34 -0700, Rudy Canoza  wrote:   
   >> Indianapolis police chief says gunman bought weapons legally   
   > despite earlier   
   >> warning.   
   >   
   >   
   >> By Ali Watkins, Campbell Robertson and Andrés R. Martínez   
   >> April 17, 2021   
   >   
   >   
   >> Brandon Hole, the 19-year-old who the police say fatally shot eight   
   > people at a   
   >> FedEx facility on Thursday night, legally purchased two   
   > semiautomatic rifles he   
   >> used in the attack more than six months earlier, according to the   
   > chief of the   
   >> Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.   
   >   
   >   
   >> In March of 2020, the police had seized a shotgun from Mr. Hole   
   > after his mother   
   >> raised concerns about his mental state, records show. But, Chief   
   > Randal Taylor   
   >> said, the fact that Mr. Hole was legally able to make the more   
   > recent gun   
   >> purchases indicates that, despite his mother’s warning and the   
   > police seizure of   
   >> a gun, the authorities had not deemed him subject to Indiana’s   
   > so-called “red   
   >> flag” law,  which bars people who are found by a judge to present   
   > dangerous risk   
   >> from possessing a firearm.   
   >   
   >   
   >> Under the state’s longstanding red flag law, the authorities have   
   > two weeks   
   >> after taking someone’s weapon to argue before a judge that the   
   > person is   
   >> unstable and should be barred from possessing a gun for a period of   
   > time. But   
   >> Chief Taylor was unsure whether a hearing like that ever took place   
   > — even   
   >> though the police never returned the shotgun they had seized last   
   > year.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/us/Indianapolis-gunman-weapons.html?   
   > auth=link-dismiss-google1tap   
   >   
   >   
   >> If Indiana's red-flag law had been properly invoked, the killer,   
   > Brandon Hole,   
   >> would not have been able to buy the rifles legally.  Of course,   
   > Hartung thinks   
   >> red-flag laws are "unconstitutional."  Hartung thinks the mental   
   > defective had a   
   >> "right" to as many guns as he wanted.   
   >   
   >   
   > Good point, Rudy. Thank you for helping us   
   > think clearly about these issues.   
      
   Ah, Rudy aint' so smarrt.  I beasted him onc'e.   
      
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