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A new Colorado gun law has been divisive from the start. Now, a group of researchers is analyzing how it has been used in its first year.
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ERPOs are designed as an intervention in a time of crisis. He says it only made things worse.
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In its first month on the books, Colorado's extreme risk protection order (ERPO) law was used eight times in January.The ERPO law, also known a red flag…
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The new laws often don’t lay out a process for actually seizing the guns, leaving local law enforcement to figure out for themselves how to manage confrontations.
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Guns & America has reviewed all 166 petitions that were filed in the state from Jan. 1, 2018, when the law went into effect, through Oct. 31, 2019. They paint a picture of people in extraordinary crisis.
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The concerns Melissa Potter shared would ultimately led police to use a risk warrant, which is an element of Connecticut’s Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPOs), and to her nephew’s door.
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Following a series of high-profile shootings, one Congressional committee is marking up gun bills.
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At least seven people were killed and another 20 were injured in a mass shooting that stretched in and around Midland and Odessa, Texas, Saturday. But less than 24 hours later, a series of new gun laws, passed in late May and early June by the Texas legislature, went into effect.
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Florida adopted a red flag law last year after the shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Since then, courts there have approved about 2,500 risk protection orders.
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“Eighty percent of them or so, either tell people that they’re going to commit a mass shooting or behave in a way that raises really serious concern.â€