It appears Maine voters will decide two initiated referendum questions this year concerning voting and firearms safety ...

States across the political spectrum are enacting laws to protect children and teens on social media platforms.

Yet despite that scare, there's no public record that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado's "red flag" law. An AP analysis found many U.S. states barely use "red flag" laws that allow ...

North Dakota lawmakers want to ban red flag laws, a tool that advocates of extreme risk protection orders say could help ...

The Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act allows police to petition a court to order the removal of someone else's ...

Mills spoke in favor of the state’s current “yellow flag” law, saying mental health assessments are important and help ...

Twenty-one states have red flag laws that provide for quick intervention and the ability to temporarily remove weapons when a person is at serious risk of harming themselves or others, according ...

What happened next illustrates how state laws can help — or hinder — efforts to prevent mass shootings. Police, invoking California’s red-flag law, were able to immediately issue an ...