California’s Expanded ‘Red Flag’ Law Increases Gun Confiscations

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🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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California courts approved more than 1,200 gun violence restraining orders last year under the state’s “red flag” law, according to data from the state attorney general. The law allows local authorities — at the request of family, teachers or co-workers — to temporarily remove firearms from those deemed a threat to themselves or others. Red flag laws made headlines earlier this year in the wake of the mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, when it emerged that the perpetrator’s mother attempted to invoke Indiana’s red flag law months prior. We’ll talk about how red flag laws work and they're used in California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.6	Coming up on forum, we take a closer look at California's gun law known as a red flag
0:55.9	law after another states, Indiana's red flag law failed to thwart last month's mass
1:01.4	shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
1:04.6	Red flag laws allow for disarming people deemed a threat to themselves or others at the
1:09.2	request of family or colleagues.
1:11.4	We look at what went wrong in Indiana and how California's law works.
1:15.7	In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting just this morning, this time in San Jose.
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