red flag law

A Northern Virginia lawmaker publicly shared the tragic story of her brother’s death for the first time this week as the House of Delegates debated whether to repeal the “red flag” law.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on efforts in the Virginia General Assembly to repeal the red flag law that enables law enforcement to seize weapons from those in crisis.

A Fairfax County “red flag” law is already saving lives, officials say, allowing people to notify police if someone with a gun is a danger to themselves or others so that authorities can remove the weapon with a judge’s permission.

The day after a gunman killed 10 people at a Boulder, Colo., grocery store, gun law experts testified in front of the Senate about the pros and cons of instituting stricter gun laws including extreme risk protection orders, also known as “red flag laws.”

A Florida law that allows judges to bar anyone deemed dangerous from possessing firearms has been used 3,500 times since its enactment after a 2018 high school massacre

Members of the public and special interest groups made their case Tuesday to a Virginia commission studying a broad range of gun safety proposals after a deadly mass shooting in Virginia Beach earlier this year.

As the Virginia State Crime Commission began a hearing Monday on proposals to stem gun violence, Gov. Ralph Northam urged lawmakers to pass “commonsense” measures as he took a swipe at Republican leaders who called for further study.

A staffer for a D.C. Council member is accused of firing a gun outside a pop-up “cannabis party” in early August, police and court documents say.

Maryland’s Red Flag law is designed to prevent people deemed a risk to themselves or others from owning guns. In Montgomery County, 203 red flag petitions have already been granted since the law went into effect October. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

Gun laws passed Tuesday by the D.C. Council take aim at high-capacity firearms and create a way for police to seize guns from people who may harm themselves or others.

Police in Maryland say an officer shot and killed a man while serving a protective order to remove guns from his Glen Burnie home.

Democrat Ben Jealous used every chance he could get to challenge Republican Gov. Larry Hogan as a politician with no plans for the future on Monday in the only debate of Maryland’s governor’s race, while Hogan said the state is better off after his first term. Jealous and Hogan battled the whole hour over the economy, education, guns, health...