States can soon apply for federal money for red flag laws
An 18-year-old with several swastikas and a school kill list on his bedroom wall was prohibited from possessing firearms after the Denver Police Department petitioned in June for an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) under Colorado’s red flag law. The same department filed for another ERPO in June in the case of a 31-year-old man after they said he called the Adams County Courthouse in Brighton, Colorado, to threaten a “mass shooting.” Police successfully petitioned for an ERPO that would prohibit him from accessing firearms for at least a year.