The FBI and APD are being cute, and the ADN and rest of the media are enabling it.

AS 47.30.700 Initiation of Involuntary Commitment Procedures

http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/statutes/title47/chapter30/section700.htm

They, and the suspect's family and friends, apparently did not take his threat and illness seriously enough to actually start the process to have him adjudicated mentally ill, which would have let them keep his gun and get him help while protecting his right to due process.

As so frequently is the case, it is thus both intellectually dishonest and asinine to call for "more restrictions," which lack due process protections, when existing laws which have them are not being utilized.

If the media would do actual journalism and not just reprint official press releases and parrot anti-gun rights propaganda which fits their preferred narrative, we'd have the informed electorate we need on this and other topics.