{"id":94657,"date":"2019-04-12T17:34:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T23:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-law-permits-seizure-of-guns-if-owner-is-a-threat\/"},"modified":"2019-04-12T17:34:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T23:34:38","slug":"colorado-law-permits-seizure-of-guns-if-owner-is-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-law-permits-seizure-of-guns-if-owner-is-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado law permits seizure of guns if owner is a threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- Missing image mapping. {\"id\":233957,\"url\":\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/storyimage\/CJ\/20190412\/NEWS01\/190419940\/AR\/0\/AR-190419940.jpg\",\"caption_title\":\"\",\"caption\":\"Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed a u0026#x201c;red flagu0026#x201d; gun law that permits the seizure of firearms from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.\",\"article_id\":134791,\"factbox_id\":null,\"photo_byline\":\"Brennan Linsley\/Associated Press file\",\"alt_text\":null,\"orientation_landscape\":true,\"in_article\":false,\"is_square\":false,\"gallery_id\":null,\"created_at\":\"2019-04-12T17:34:38.000-06:00\",\"updated_at\":\"2019-04-12T17:34:38.000-06:00\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":1067,\"order\":null,\"photo_sales\":false,\"special_report_id\":null,\"durango_coupon_id\":null,\"guid\":null,\"naviga_url\":null} --><\/p>\n<p>DENVER \u2013 Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed a \u201cred flag\u201d gun law that permits the seizure of firearms from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.<\/p>\n<p>Polis, a Democrat, signed the bill into law on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation was one of the most disputed of Colorado\u2019s 2019 Democrat-controlled legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>It places the burden of proof on a gun owner to get firearms back by showing that he or she no longer poses a risk.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents argue the law violates the 2nd Amendment and due process rights of gun owners.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Colorado\u2019s most significant gun legislation since background checks and ammunition magazine limits were enacted in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Two Democratic lawmakers were recalled and another resigned for supporting those laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018red flag\u2019 bill into law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-94657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94657"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=94657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}