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)

I just placed the code in another LocalScript and it seems to be working. This was odd. Thanks though!