The Aspen Times: Bill expanding Colorado’s ‘red flag’ gun law sails through state Senate, heads to House

The Colorado Senate voted nearly along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill expanding the state’s “red flag” law that lets judges temporarily remove someone’s guns.

The measure expands a 2019 law that allows law enforcement officers and family members to petition a judge to remove someone’s firearms for up to one year if they believe that person is a threat to themselves or others. The petition is known as an extreme risk protection order.

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