While it’s not clear the law could have prevented Saturday night's attack, advocates say it could have at least slowed him and raised his profile with law enforcement.
Courts issued 151 gun surrender orders from when the law took effect in April 2019 through 2021, three surrender orders for every 100,000 adults in the state. That's a third of the ratio of orders issued for the 19 states and District of Columbia with surrender laws on their books.
El Paso County, with a population of 730,000, had 13 temporary firearm removals through the end of last year, four of which turned into longer ones of at least six months. "I haven't been this vigilant to my surroundings since the days following the shooting at Pulse nightclub," says Brandon Wolf, a survivor of that shooting on June 12, 2016. Wolf joined LX News to discuss gun violence and a surge in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric that is making many fear an escalation to violence.
“There is absolutely nothing there, the case was dropped, and I’m asking you either remove or update the story,” the suspected gunman said in a voice message to an editor. “The entire case was dismissed.” AP's study of 19 states and the District of Columbia with red flag laws on their books found they have been used about 15,000 times since 2020, less than 10 times for every 100,000 adults in each state. Experts called that woefully low and hardly enough to make a dent in gun killings.
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