Animation does not play after respawn?

I am currently messing around with animations and I'm running into an issue I can't seem to get around...

The animation plays correctly the first time when the character has existed prior however, when the character dies and I want the animation the play once again, it does not happen. Does anyone have any suggestions to what I could try?

Thanks!

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.Character:wait()

local animation = character.Humanoid:WaitForChild("holdAnimation")
local playHoldAnimation = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)

redGun = player.Backpack:WaitForChild("Red Laser Gun")
blueGun = player.Backpack:WaitForChild("Blue Laser Gun")

redGun.Equipped:connect(function()
    print("fired")
    playHoldAnimation:Play()
    playHoldAnimation.KeyframeReached:connect(function(keyFrameName)
        if keyFrameName == "here" then
            playHoldAnimation.TimePosition = .25
        end
    end)

end)

redGun.Unequipped:connect(function()

    playHoldAnimation:Stop()

end)