Sheriffs Who Denounced Colorado’s Red Flag Law Are Now Using It [khn.org]

Porter Jennings-McGarity 6/29/226:00 AM

By Markian Hawryluk, Photo: Eyeem/Getty Images, Kaiser Health News, June 28, 2022

Dolores County Sheriff Don Wilson never expected to use Colorado’s red flag law when it was passed in 2019. He thought the law made it too easy to take a person’s guns away.

The statute allows law enforcement officers or private citizens to petition a county court to confiscate firearms temporarily from people who pose an imminent threat to themselves or others.

“All it is is one person’s word against another,” said Wilson, whose sparsely populated territory is in southwestern Colorado near the Utah border.

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