Texas Bill Would Ban Seizing Guns From Mentally Ill

The Texas Tribune reports:

Senate Bill 1362 aims to prevent extreme risk protection orders in civil cases from being used to confiscate guns from people. The protection orders can be provided by civil judges after due process hearings to temporarily bar certain people from owning or purchasing firearms if they are found to be an immediate danger.

Twenty-one states have statutes, known as “red flag laws,” permitting the protection orders. Texas doesn’t have a red flag law, and SB 1362 ensures that it won’t join the states that do. Proponents of red flag laws like Nicole Golden, executive director of Texas Gun Sense, say those fears aren’t based in actual instances and stave off orders that could save lives.

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Texas is poised to make it easier for residents to own short-barreled shotguns and rifles, rolling back yet another firearm regulation in a state that has experienced some of the deadliest mass shootings in the country in the last decade.

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