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The proposals would add to the list of who can petition to have someone’s guns removed under the state’s red flag law and add new rules for selling and tracking gun barrels.

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.

ERPOs are designed as an intervention in a time of crisis. He says it only made things worse.

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…

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.

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.

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.

Following a series of high-profile shootings, one Congressional committee is marking up gun bills.

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.

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.