But because authorities couldn’t prove that he brought the gun to school, and because his father declined to allow a search of their home, the student was allowed to continue going to classes as long as he submitted to a daily pat down by administrators to ensure he didn’t have a firearm.
Lyle, a bright, 17-year-old and passionate advocate for the Second Amendment right to bear arms who felt he had the right to possess firearms — perhaps even on a high school campus.
When officers arrived at her house, she gave them permission to search and they found a black and gray AR-15-style rifle, capped by a silencer, along with a 30-round ammunition magazine in Lyle’s bedroom.
So kid was a libertarian, dad probably knew his kid had guns because somehow a 17 year old managed to get an AR15, a silencer, and 30 round mags which are all incredibly expensive for a student to get on his own.
Lyle’s status as a probationer meant he could be subjected to searches by law enforcement or probation officers at any time to monitor his compliance with the conditions of his probation. But DPS and the Denver Police Department said even if school resource officers were on campus, they would not have conducted searches of a student. That’s why the task fell to educators.
Resource officers weren't allowed on campus, but even if they were they had no plans on searching anybody, so this would've happened with or without cops.
That’s when a fellow student reported that Lyle may have had a gun. A campus security officer sought to question him, but he left the school instead. Denver police then went to his father’s apartment and asked to search the student’s bedroom. His father refused.
I'm against cops being on campus and all, but if you ALREADY know that one of your students has a fucking rifle and legal troubles, then perhaps there should've been more security protocols for him specifically before allowing him to integrate with everyone else instead of letting random administrators pat him down. They already had cops investigate this kid specifically but then just allowed random people to pat him down lol
Even if the suppressor was a registered one (it definitely wasn’t),a can and cheap rifle are half the cost of a beater used car. They’re not luxury goods or prohibitively expensive.