March 27, 2024
By Mark Chesnut
So-called “red-flag” laws, also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), might sound good in theory, but so far these laws that have been passed in a number of states violate the due process rights of citizens of those states. In fact, in most cases a person who is the subject of one of these orders can have his firearms confiscated with no advance notice, leaving him to prove in a sometimes much-later court hearing that he isn’t a danger and shouldn’t have had his right to arms infringed. Alas, that hasn’t stopped the Biden Administration from making the passage of such laws, both federally and at the state level, a priority—despite the...
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