Questions such as, "where did the gun come from?" are coming to the surface. Police say the suspect in the Raleigh shooting is 15 years old, which is not old enough to buy a gun legally in the state.

North Carolina Firearms Laws says no one under the age of 21 can buy a hand gun, and no one under the age of 18 can buy a long gun. 

Police haven’t released where the suspect obtained the gun or the type of gun used.

According to the Giffords Law Center, North Carolina does not have a law requiring unattended firearms to be stored in a certain way. 

However, there is a law stating gun owners need to keep guns out of the reach of children.

It says: "Any person who resides in the same premises as a minor, owns or possesses a firearm, and stores or leaves the firearm (i) in a condition that the firearm can be discharged and (ii) in a manner that the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised minor would be able to gain access to the firearm, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if a minor gains access to the firearm without the lawful permission of the minor's parents or a person having charge of the minor and the minor.” 

Over the weekend, a Charlotte certified firearms instructor led a training, educating people on how to safely store their guns.

LaToya “Ladi Ammo” Workman founded "Woman with a Weapon" in 2020. She educates women on firearms and suggests a gun storage box or a gun lock.

“Because it’s gonna be cheaper for you to have a safe than for you to be going to court and trying to defend why you let someone else get access to your firearm, and it gets used in a crime,” Workman said while leading the training.

“It’s our responsibility to make sure our firearm does not get in the hands of anyone other than ourselves, because we are the only authorized user of our firearm,” she added.

Workman says whether you own a gun or not, taking a safety education course is a good idea, because it can help you recognize whether someone around you is doing something unsafe.

“I think there is a lot of people that have been exposed to firearms and that feel that they have proper training, but I think taking a class and getting proper training, you realize that there are things that you don’t know and I think that makes us a safer society altogether,” she said.

The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office says they hand out free gun locks to gun owners.

Deputy Sheriff Patrick Colson says if you do have a firearm, make sure it’s stored away, especially with a minor in the home.

“The child should not have any knowledge you have a weapon,” he said. “Definitely if you do have a weapon and a child does know it, it should be in a lock box or have it in a place where you know you have the gun locks, and it’s pretty much sealed that the child could not use it anyway if they are able to see it and get it."

The Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office is hosting a gun lock giveaway event on Nov. 12.

It will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Carolina Sporting Arms, located at 8055 South Blvd. in Charlotte.