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One thing worth noting – he was unlike the shooter in Texas who was determined to have committed prior disqualifying crimes while in the Air Force which weren’t reported to NCIC.\u00a0 Robert Card had numerous red flag events, was reported to the cops at least twice, yet still committed multiple murders.<\/p>\n Five months before the deadliest mass shooting in Maine\u2019s history, the gunman\u2019s family alerted the sheriff that they were becoming \u201cconcerned\u201d about his deteriorating mental health while he had access to firearms, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n Card underwent a mental health evaluation last summer after he began acting erratically at an Army training facility in New York, officials said. A bulletin sent to police shortly after last week\u2019s attack said Card had been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks after \u201chearing voices and threats to shoot up\u201d a military base.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So he was reported twice, by his family and by the Army. We’re assured by all those “red flag” law authors that this should have stopped him.<\/p>\n Actually, the one thing that helped reduce the potential casualties – he was turned away from buying a suppressor.\u00a0 Had he had one, the audio signature\u00a0 would have been lessened considerably, and potentially he could have killed far more. What stopped him – the feds and their interminable paperwork delays? Nope, an alert store owner doing his job right.<\/p>\n Rick LaChapelle, owner of Coastal Defense Firearms, said Card purchased a suppressor, also called a silencer, online and arranged to pick it up at his shop.<\/p>\n Card already had submitted information to the federal government to purchase it, and federal authorities had approved the sale to that point, he said.<\/p>\n When Card filled out the form at LaChapelle\u2019s gun shop to pick up the silencer Aug. 5, he answered \u201cyes\u201d to the question: \u201cHave you ever been adjudicated as a mental defective OR have you ever been committed to a mental institution?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs soon as he answered that \u2018yes\u2019 we know automatically that this is disqualifying, he\u2019s not getting a silencer today,\u201d LaChapelle said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So the Feds blessed him… but only an alert gun shop owner actually did anything.<\/p>\n This seems to show a flawed system – Maine properly does not take someone’s guns away based on mere supposition, but someone sneaked through. Me, I’m a big 2A guy – but I would be the first to say there are some people who just should NOT have access to guns. How do you define that? That’s a lot stickier.<\/p>\n Oh, and a side note – when I say his audio signature would have been louder – turns out he was using the new Ruger SFAR, an AR-15 sized rifle chambered in .308\/7.62×51. Be willing to bet it is a lot louder than the usual AR-15, plus that is a really new rifle on the market (still somewhat rare, as a matter of fact) so it was purchased quite recently. Probably explains the high ratio of deaths to injuries, usually you hear of several dead vs. many many injured, not a 2:1 ratio the other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, in the latest update on Matthew Perry’s death<\/del>… we have a war in Gaza and what are the bulk of the headlines? Anyway, there was a fella in Maine who caused a ruckus last week.<\/p>\n