Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior legal analyst, thinks “red flag” laws are a bad idea. (Screen snip, YouTube, Fox News.) In an essay published Wednesday in the Washington Times and on Thursday by Fox News, that cable network’s senior legal analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, wrote strongly against the concept of so-called “red flag” laws, […]
‘Red Flag’ Laws Raise Constitutional Issues
At the state capitol in Augusta Monday, Maine lawmakers got an earful from both sides in a hotly-debated push to adopt a so-called “red flag” law, the generic term for legislation that would legalized Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO) that allow people deemed to be “at risk” to have their firearms seized by police. The […]
Senate Judiciary Sets Hearing on Gun Control Laws
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing March 26 on gun control laws that will, according to The Hill, “likely focus on ‘red flag’ laws” that are gaining popularity across the country, but are troubling to Second Amendment activists who are concerned that they violate due process and other rights of […]