Posted April 7, 2017 12:03 pm by Comments

By Christen Smith

Sen. Julia Ratti, D-Sparks, pictured on fourth day of legislative session on Feb. 9, 2017. (Photo: Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A panel of Nevada senators vetted a high-risk protection order proposal Wednesday aimed at removing guns from dangerous persons before tragedy strikes.
Sen. Julia Ratti, D-Sparks, sponsored Senate Bill 387 as “one of the most important bills this session” and “a common sense public safety measure” of last resort.
“When we have folks who are in crisis and have access to weapons, we have terrible, terrible outcomes,” she said Wednesday while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the proposal. “It gives law enforcement another arrow in their quiver. It’s a tool that will be used when all other tools have been exhausted.”
Specifically, Ratti’s legislation allows family or other household members to report high risk individuals to law enforcement, who can then seek a court order to remove the individual’s firearms temporarily. The bill defines a high-risk individual as someone who owns a firearm, poses a danger to themselves or others and has threatened violence within the preceding six months or behaved violently. Once a court issues the protective order, a hearing will be scheduled within 21 days. In the meantime, law enforcement

Source: Guns.com

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