Delaware enacts ‘Beau Biden’ gun control act

By Chris Eger

Gov. John Carney joined fellow Democrat, Vice President Joe Biden, at the University of Delaware’s Biden Institute this week to sign a gun control bill into law named in honor of Biden’s late son, the state’s former attorney general. (Photo: Carney’s office)
Vice President Joe Biden was on hand for the signing of “red flag” legislation into law by Delaware Gov. John Carney on Monday.
The Beau Biden Gun Violence Prevention Act, which passed the Democrat-controlled legislature as HB 302 on a unanimous vote, requires health care workers to report anyone they feel is a danger to themselves or others. Police, obligated to investigate, could then petition the courts to order the person to turn over their guns pending a hearing. Joe’s son, Beau, served as the state’s attorney general until his death in 2015 and had proposed a similar version of the measure in 2013.
“While that bill came up short of passage before we lost Beau, he was always confident that we would move in the right direction,” said the senior Biden at the event, held at the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. “This bill will make the state of Delaware safer while safeguarding every Delawarean’s rights to due

Source: Guns.com