Over a year before his arrest in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting, the suspect allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb. Yet there’s no record that authorities tried to trigger a “red flag' law to seize guns and ammo from the man.
But the law that allows guns to be removed from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others has seldom been used in the state, particularly in El Paso County, home to Colorado Springs, where the 22-year-old Aldrich allegedly went into Club Q with a long gun at just before midnight and opened fire before he was subdued by patrons.found Colorado has one of the lowest rates of red flag usage despite widespread gun ownership and several high-profile mass shootings.
El Paso County, with a population of 730,000, had 13 temporary firearm removals through the end of last year, four of which turned into longer ones of at least six months. An online court records search did not turn up any formal charges filed against Aldrich in last year’s case. And in an update on a story on the bomb threat, The Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs reported that prosecutors did not pursue any charges in the case and that records were sealed.
A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office, Howard Black, declined to comment on whether any charges were pursued. He said the shooting investigation will also include a study of the bomb threat.“There will be no additional information released at this time,” Black said. “These are still investigative questions.”
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