Sheriffs Can’t Simply Ignore New Gun Laws
It puts lives at risk
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5 min readJun 13, 2019
For months, the sheriff of Weld County, Colorado, has been on a media tour to talk about why he’d rather go to jail than enforce his state’s new gun safety law. The legislation empowers law enforcement to temporarily disarm people who are deemed a threat to themselves or others, but Sheriff Steve Reams said he’d prefer to willfully reject court-ordered gun…
