How Minnesota law enforcement turns to ‘red flag' law

To combat gun violence, Minnesota law enforcement turns to ‘red flag’ law

Minnesota Judicial Branch data shows that more emergency petitions to take someone's guns away were filed throughout the state in the first seven months of this year than all of 2024, when the law went into effect.

How Minnesota law enforcement turns to ‘red flag' law

One day in early February, a Bloomington police detective got a call that a man had told his family that he planned to shoot himself in the head.  The detective, Matt Jones, found the man at his home where, according to a Minnesota District Court filing, he “admitted to officers that he was planning to buy a gun today and always believed that when he dies it will be by his own hand.” Jones then took a step that is becoming increasingly common am…

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