Panel: Cops Should Have Seized Mass Shooter’s Guns

The New York Times reports:

A commission investigating the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, concluded on Friday that local law enforcement officers should have taken the gunman, Robert Card Jr., into custody and seized his weapons before he killed 18 people on Oct. 25.

The decision to instead give Mr. Card’s family responsibility for removing his weapons was “an abdication of law enforcement’s responsibility,” the commission wrote in its 30-page interim report, intended to provide early findings to legislators who are weighing several proposals for changes to the state’s gun laws, spurred by the events.

The local sheriff’s department had “sufficient probable cause” to take Mr. Card into custody and remove his weapons because of a “likelihood of serious harm,” the commission said in its report.

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#BREAKING: The Independent Commission investigating the Lewiston mass shootings has found that the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office had probable cause to take Robert Card’s guns away under Maine’s Yellow Flag law. https://t.co/wqFdsjFHE4

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