that for a 15 year old to own a handgun is it legal here in california you have to be $21.00 and you have to be $21.00 to buy or to purchase a high powered rifle or an assault style rifle it may be his mother s we know that his mother and his girlfriend are talking with police right now being investigated they are not persons of interest or suspects of any kind but they are being investigated i m not sure if there is a father involved here i m not sure if it s the mom s gun or maybe their girlfriend got it we can speculate for days but hal this child got ahold of a handgun and it s a 45 caliber semiautomatic pistol we just learned that new details we re not exactly sure. definitely a tragedy jason carroll donia l.a. bureau chief with n.b.c. news radio jason thank you thank you.