What to know about Colorado's 'red flag' law as state ponders changes

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Colorado's tragic history of mass shootings led lawmakers to a litany of new laws designed to stem gun violence. Among them is a law that lets judges seize firearms from people considered a danger to themselves or others. But it's not working as intended.

Colorado judges ordered 168 people to surrender their guns for at least two weeks through mid-November. That's 61% of the 359 extreme risk protection orders filed, Axios Denver found in a review of dataThe cases primarily involved risk to others, followed by self-harm and 30 cases of threats of public violence.

Denver police filed 88 red flag cases — more than half of all those from law enforcement — while agencies in 40 of the state's 64 counties filed none.AP investigation foundIn more than a quarter of the cases, mostly filed by family members, the request didn't include an explicit threat of violence or misuse of a firearm and led to dismissals.In

 

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So the representatives of the power obsessed elite are infringing on the rights of the People, using uncontrolled asset seizure laws. Who could have possibly imagined this? IIRC, pretty much this exact situation was one of the key drivers for breaking alway from Britain, no?

Of course not. Today’s liberal is too emotional to think things through completely.

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