Page 8 - Thomas Ahern News Today

The pattern is blamed on a lack of awareness of the laws and resistance by some authorities to enforce them despite high gun death rates.

An Associated Press analysis found many U.S. states barely use “red flag” laws that allow police to take guns away from people threatening to kill.

The laws appear largely ineffective, partially because of a lack of knowledge of them, and partly because some officials refuse to enforce them.

An Associated Press analysis found many U.S. states barely use “red flag” laws that allow police to take guns away from people threatening to kill, a trend blamed on lack of awareness of the laws and a reluctance to enforce them even as gun deaths soar.

The laws appear largely ineffective, partially because of a lack of knowledge of them, and partly because some officials refuse to enforce them.

An AP analysis found many U.S. states barely use the red flag laws touted as the most powerful tool to stop gun violence before it happens. Heres why.

Florida leads in the nation in gun removal orders.

The Irish provinces may be without a big group of players early on in the URC season.

Gunshot-detection systems spark debate, with opponents saying the technology is ineffective and over polices communities of colour.

Gunshot-detection systems spark debate, with opponents saying the technology is ineffective and over polices communities of color