Buying your son an AR-215 is not illegal at all. You would have to willingly allow unsupervised access and control of it for these charges to be valid. Merely buying it as a gift for him to use with supervision, with the understanding that he will own it when he turns 18, would not be illegal.
AR-15, not 215....
From the article:
“Officials confirmed in a press conference that the charges stem from Colin ‘knowingly allowing’ his son to have access to the firearm used in the shooting.”
Of course they will have to prove in court that he did indeed “knowingly” allow the kid access. After promising the cops investigating his son’s online threats to shoot up schools that he would keep his guns safely secured from the kid — if he then went and bought the kid his very own gun and allowed him free access to it ... well, what do you call that?
This is exactly how I understand the laws. In Illinois, you have to have a FOID card, yet no age restrictions. My sons age 9 and 11 got FOID cards and went through hunter safety course. Both youths would hunt and regularly went to the local range and shot traps and skeet. All perfectly legal.
Now what would be illegal and a crime if they used the firearm to kill or injure somebody. As anyone should.
Now did the father hand the weapon to the child, or did the child with out the parents knowledge take the weapon that day.
The Illinois shooter who’s both parents are currently in jail for their child’s crimes.
The court said if the parents just did one thing to stop the crime, the crime would not have happened.
I’m lost in that logic. Arrested for not doing something , but could not state anything specific.
His father Colin gray has been charged with 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter, 2 counts of second-degree murder...... and 8 counts of cruelty to children.
Georgia has a new law - has something to do with second degree murder when child abuse is evolved.....since the father is charged with 8 counts of child abuse it may have to do with that issue.
The father also stated his son had access to his guns but they were not loaded. He bought the AR for him when he was 13.
I SERIOUSLY DOUBT ANY OF THOSE RESTRICTIONS WERE FOLLOWED.