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California’s ‘red flag’ law utilized for 58 threatened mass shootings

UC Davis Health — June 7, 2022

A new study from the Violence Prevention Research Program shows that California’s “red flag” law was utilized for 58 threatened mass shootings during the first three years after it was implemented. The majority of GVROs (96.5%) were filed by law enforcement officers to prevent threatened violence.

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