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 ...

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.

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 ...

(Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer) WASHINGTON — Congress is poised to pass the most significant legislation to curb gun violence in nearly 30 years, and red flag laws have been a key point of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...