âWe have two lives lostâ: Families push for gun rental background checks after back-to-back suicides
âWe have two lives lostâ: Families push for gun rental background checks after back-to-back suicides By Kelly Avellino | January 7, 2021 at 6:17 PM EST - Updated January 24 at 12:28 PM
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Within a period of five days last July, two Hanover men who didnât know one another, each took their lives at Green Top Shooting Range in Hanover County.
Both men had been committed to mental health institutions, multiple times before. Regardless, after filling out a form at the indoor gun range, the firearms were rented and put into the hands of two mentally unstable people.