How to Use extreme risk protection order in a Sentence

extreme risk protection order

noun
  • These laws allow people to seek court orders known as extreme risk protection orders.
    — Deepa Shivaram, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Just 22 states have extreme risk protection orders; Wisconsin is not one of them.
    — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Minnesota is now one of 21 states that have enacted an extreme risk protection order law.
    — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Many states take sensible steps—background checks, extreme risk protection orders, and safe storage laws—all policies that help reduce gun crime and gun deaths.
    — Gabby Giffords, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Texas has no red flag law – also known as an extreme risk protection order law – that would allow authorities to take weapons from a person thought to be in crisis.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Lee signed the executive order strengthening background checks and called for the extreme risk protection order, known elsewhere as a red-flag law.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The sweep of new laws started relatively slowly, with 2019’s extreme risk protection order law.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Whitmer on Thursday morning called for lawmakers to send the extreme risk protection order legislation her way.
    — Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2023
  • If elected, Smith would also support gun control policies including extreme risk protection orders and safe storage laws.
    — The Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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 following day the department suspended Calvin and a few days later filed an extreme risk protection order against him under Michigan law, also known as a red flag law.
    — Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In the first year of implementation, 138 extreme risk protection order petitions were filed, according to state court data.
    — Caroline Cummings, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In New York, an extreme risk protection order is sought for people considered potentially dangerous.
    — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Earlier this year, the Senate approved Senate Bill 4, which would expand who can request extreme risk protection orders.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Twenty-one states currently have red flag laws, which are sometimes also referred to as extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) or extreme risk laws.
    — Abby Monteil, Them, 19 Nov. 2024
  • In the new year, New York is also implementing a statewide registry of extreme risk protection orders, which bars someone from owning a gun temporarily if they are deemed at risk to themselves or others.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Buffalo police detectives from the department’s threat management unit applied for a temporary extreme risk protection order in connection with the incident, police said.
    — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • But an extreme risk protection order, recognized in California as a gun violence restraining order, allowed law enforcement agents to intervene before disaster.
    — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The law, which allows judges to issue extreme risk protection orders, now allows family members, law enforcement, health care professionals and educators to petition the courts to require people to surrender their firearms temporarily.
    — The Denver Post, Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The bill would authorize and establish guidance for federal courts to issue extreme risk protection orders, allowing family members to request a federal court order which would remove access to firearms for someone who is deemed a danger to themselves or others by the court.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Regulating guns and online activity A Minnesota law will allow authorities to ask courts for extreme risk protection orders to temporarily take guns from people deemed to be an imminent threat to others or themselves.
    — CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The law took effect in January 2024 and allows certain people — like family members, county or city attorneys and chief law enforcement officers — to file the petition, known as an extreme risk protection order.
    — Caroline Cummings, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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 orders will expand outreach and education around extreme risk protection orders and safe gun storage, create a Statewide Safety Council and require insurance companies to provide data on the cost of gun violence, Walz said.
    — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025

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