Colorado GOP Senators Reject ‘Red Flag’ Bill In Committee

By Tom Knighton

“Red flag” laws are laws that empower judges to seize people’s firearms if they exhibit certain troubling behaviors. In the wake of the Parkland massacre, such laws gained a great deal of attention, as they were pushed as a potential solution that would prevent other such tragedies from happening.

However, those laws aren’t without problems.

Those problems caused a “red flag” bill to slam head-first into a roadblock in Colorado yesterday.

A contentious measure that would have allowed Colorado judges to order the seizure of guns from people considered a “significant risk” to themselves or others was rejected Monday night by Republicans in a GOP-controlled state Senate panel.

The so-called “red flag” legislation — House Bill 1436 — failed on a 3-2, party-line vote in the Senate’s State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee, as expected.

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“There is no divide in the Senate,” Senate Majority Leader Chris Holbert, R-Parker, told reporters Monday, underlining that fact.

The bill would have allowed relatives, household members or law enforcement to petition a judge to issue a temporary protection order for the removal of firearms from a person deemed an “extreme risk.” The court would then have held a second hearing within a week on …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms