By contrast, Massachusetts has a red flag law. WBZ wanted to learn the difference between the two to help understand law enforcement responses to potentially dangerous individuals who own guns.

A Scottsdale man murders his wife and 15-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself. We desperately need a red flag ...

Extreme risk protection orders, more commonly referred to as "red flag" laws, have been passed across the country as a means to prevent gun violence — but there are many questions about what ...

Even after recent mass shootings, experts say these laws could work. As gun violence in America continues to take lives, lawmakers are pushing states to implement "red flag" laws, which allow law ...

Though the woman possessed the gun legally, police seized it, along with another weapon, under the District’s red-flag law, which allows law enforcement, family members and mental health ...

Chicago is one of the nation’s gun violence hotspots and a seemingly ideal place to employ Illinois’ “red flag” law that allows police to step in and take firearms away from people who ...

The measure was brought forward by the Maine Gun Safety Coalition after lawmakers failed to pass a red flag law last year in the wake of the Lewiston mass shooting. A proposal for a red flag law ...

Florida’s traditionally pro-gun Republican-led legislature passed its red flag law in 2019 following revelations police failed to act on repeated threats by an expelled student who would go on ...

Congress is poised to pass the first gun control legislation in three decades. Among the elements in that legislation is support for states to pass what are called “red flag laws.” ...

After the Lewiston shooting, scrutiny over unheeded warning signs and Maine's "yellow flag" gun law sparks bipartisan momentum for "red flag" laws. The mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine ...

While the battle over gun rights in the U.S. remains one of the most contentious political divides in the country, support for "red flag" laws is surprisingly bipartisan. According to a 2022 poll ...