1st Use of Colorado ERPO/ Red Flag Law

[Craig_AR]

Just spotted this Denver Post news article:
Colorado’s red-flag law invoked, likely for the first time, in Denver case
"One day after Colorado’s red-flag law came into effect, a Denver judge temporarily granted a police officer’s request to keep a suicidal man’s confiscated guns under the new firearm seizure law.
Denver police filed the petition for the temporary extreme risk protection order Jan. 2 in Denver Probate Court for a man suspected of beating his wife and who made suicidal statements when contacted by officers, according to a copy of the petition obtained by The Denver Post."

Posting this not to set off a big discussion on Red Flags, rather to allow folks to follow a specific case to see how it progresses.

 

[Basura Blanca]

So in the absence of the new ERPO law, what would've stopped LE from seizing this guy's guns? Even the article points out the redundancy.

 

[.455_Hunter]

I am curious when we see the first "he made me feel unsafe" targeting of a citizen with no prior LE contact on the issue.

 

[Virginia Jim]

I don’t have statistics, but I’d wager most suicides are committed by means other than firearms. Are they going to confiscate the poor man’s rope, car, etc?

 

[MEHavey]

Just over 50%
https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

 

[ilbob]

It would appear there was no reason to use the red flag law if he was indeed beating his wife.

 

[skeeterfogger]

So in the absence of the new ERPO law, what would've stopped LE from seizing this guy's guns? Even the article points out the redundancy.

Nothing. The domestic dispute was enough.

 

[Jammersix]

Not much to watch. It's a done deal until the year runs out.

 

[MachIVshooter]

So in the absence of the new ERPO law, what would've stopped LE from seizing this guy's guns? Even the article points out the redundancy.

Exactly. LE intervention in such scenarios required no new legislation.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I have pointed out since the 1960s that anything you can do wrong involving a gun is already against the law.

The gun specific laws are redundant -- if the goal to to reduce crime.

 

[748]

Just over 50%
https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

Says thereally were 47,000 suicides in 2017.
But there are around 70,000 "accidental overdoses" or "overdoses" that aren't counted at suicides. Booze, Pills and street drugs are way more dangerous than guns.

 

[rodregier]

Studies of other jurisdictions have shown that as firearm laws get tighter, the suicide rate remains the same but the means changes...