Posted on 09/05/2024 6:41:42 PM PDT by grundle
Colin Gray gave his son an AR-15 style rifle as a gift, two law enforcement sources said. It's unclear when he gave the gift, but it was after authorities interviewed the father and son last year in connection with threats to carry out a school shooting.
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A 14 Y/O CITY KID?????
How can helping your son exercise his 2nd Amendment rights of owning a gun be a crime?
This is another way to scare parent of the next generation. The anti-2A crowd is ruthless. Stay locked and fully loaded, my friend.
It’s another way of isolating the gun and making it almost seem as though it is causing the violence rather than the person shooting
I got my first rifle at age 9. I took a Remington 870 12 gauge to school to give a demonstration speech in 5th grade. Showed how to break it down, clean it & safely load it.
I didn’t have thoughts about using it, until after school.
The father gave the son the gun AFTER the FBI told the father that the son had threatened to carry out a school shooting.
...... Yup ..... Wait 'till you see the big October Surprise Coming to "Shake" things up!
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“Colin Gray gave his son an AR-15 style rifle as a gift”
So what?
As long as he did not intentionally allow unsupervised access and control of it. how would that be illegal?
I think this is pretty common, with the understanding that the gun will not belong to the kid until he turns 18, and in the meantime, he can shoot it only under supervision.
If the FBI believed the kid had done that, they would have taken action. There was no belief among law enforcement that the kid had actually been the one to make the threats, imo.
I doubt the FBI told the father the kid was guilty of making the threats and then took no action.
smh... your 14 y.o. son who has threatened to shoot up a school has forfeited his 2nd amendment rights.
Lock up the dad and throw away the key.
Prosecutors out to make a reputation for themselves. Not to mention all the tax dollars they’ll rake in the longer they can drag this through the courts and media kicbacks for “leaks”.
Maybe make a name for themselves, or just catch Fani’s eye...become her new boy-toy. ,
obviously, the father did not take adequate safeguards to prevent unsupervised access. Especially after being warned by law enforcement and promising to do this.
Amazing that people are defending the father after his negligence, and abdication of parental responsibility, resulted in 4 deaths and 9 injuries.
I didn’t defend anything but the right to a fair judgement.
True. But, if the father should've known that his son was dangerous after the FBI interview, why didn't the FBI know?
Shouldn't the FBI be culpable? After all, the FBI received information that this kid was making threats, and they determined he wasn't a danger.
Gun safes . They work well if they are used. I gave my 11 year old grandson a .243 rifle for Christmas and we trained and hunted with it. He harvested a beautiful 7 point whitetail with it. Then it went back in the safe. Nothing wrong with that when your moral compass is working.
If you go back to the source - problem is that LE had no probable cause, wasn’t much they could do other than warn the father.
The threshold to arrest someone is considerably higher than a reasonable conclusion that the kid made the threats. And it should be.
The father failed to take this seriously. At a minimum it’s manslaughter, given the specificity of the threat prob shades over into murder. But that’s for a jury to decide.
Good points. I can’t disagree. In certain cases, the parent should be charged if a minor child commits a crime as a result of the parent’s irresponsibility. In the Crumbley case, for example, the parents not only left a gun unsecured at home, but also they refused to take their son home from school that day.
In this case, though, the father might argue that he believed the FBI determined his son wasn’t a threat. Another question is, even though he bought the rifle for his son, did he allow his son unfettered access to it? Or, did he take proper precautions, but his son still found a way to get his hands on it?
We’ll find out soon enough. Whatever the case, if the news reports are true, these parents aren’t exactly mother and father of the year, that’s for sure.
I think we’re in agreement. Mama is drug addict, no wonder kid’s so messed up.
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