How to Use extreme risk protection order in a Sentence

extreme risk protection order

noun
  • In states with red flag laws or extreme risk protection orders, firearms can be confiscated in some cases.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 17 June 2023
  • Another change would give those under an extreme risk protection order opportunities to ask the court to rescind the order twice during the year the order is in effect.
    Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The package aims to establish safe storage laws, universal background checks and extreme risk protection orders, also known as red flag laws.
    Joey Cappelletti, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The department recovered 629 guns through the end of May, a number that includes firearms taken from subjects of domestic violence and extreme risk protection orders.
    Sara Jean Green, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
  • Whitmer on Thursday morning called for lawmakers to send the extreme risk protection order legislation her way.
    Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The figures come from an advisory report from the Oregon Secretary of State’s audit division and suggest that the state’s extreme risk protection order law, which took effect in 2018, is seldom used five years later.
    Austindedios, oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The new red flag law, also called an extreme risk protection order, empowers those working closely with youth and adults — doctors, mental health professionals and teachers — to petition a judge to temporarily remove someone's firearm.
    CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The new red flag law, also called an extreme risk protection order, empowers those working closely with youths and adults -- doctors, mental health professionals and teachers -- to petition a judge to temporarily remove someone's firearm.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Some states have begun working to protect victims of domestic violence and the public with extreme risk protection orders, also known as red flag laws, which can temporarily prohibit a person from owning or possessing firearms.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 17 June 2023

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