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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