A new law could have led to the Manhattan shooter’s guns being confiscated. It went into effect a month before the rampage | CNN

A new Nevada law that went into effect last month gives police officers the power to confiscate firearms from a person placed on a mental health crisis hold. Experts say it was designed to work in cases like the gunman who opened fire in a Manhattan office building on July 28.

Shane Devon Tamura, 27, of Las Vegas, owned guns and was placed on a psychiatric hold in 2022 and 2024 after his mother reported to police her son was threatening to take his own life, according to records from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Tamura had a Nevada license to carry a concealed weapon when he killed four people at the 345 Park Avenue office building in New York and injured another before he died by suicide, police said.

The Manhattan shooter had a previous arrest and 2 psychiatric holds, sources say. How was he able to own a gun?

The key to the state’s new law is it allows police to confiscate the firearms of someone experiencing a mental health crisis before a court’s ruling.