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New Research Looks Into Whether Red Flag Laws Could Help Prevent Mass Shootings

Heath Druzin
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Boise State Public Radio

 

Recent shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have led to renewed calls for extreme risk protection orders — or red flag laws. New research out of California indicates that so called "red flag laws" could help prevent mass shootings. Boise State Public Radio and Guns & America reporter Heath Druzin has more about what the research does — and doesn't — say.

 

 

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