INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s “red flag law” is the focus of much scrutiny since the deadly shooting at the FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis. Critics and supporters focus on how it works, whether it ...

In Lake County, Indiana’s second-largest (Gary, Hammond), with just under 500,000 residents, just 13 red flag cases have been filed in the first nine months of 2023.

Red flag laws have limits. Red flag laws, when employed, can often keep firearms out of hands that may abuse them. But the laws, as the mass killing in Indiana shows, aren’t always used to their ...

Indiana's red flag law: Here's how it works and who is affected. The results, too often, were tragic. Over five years, at least 14 people were killed and eight injured in shootings that may have ...

The "red flag" law allows police to temporarily confiscate firearms from people who are threatening to harm themselves or others. ... Indiana's policy was born out of a tragedy in 2004.

Hoosier leaders weigh in on the limitations of Indiana's red flag law, and how legislation meant to keep guns out of certain people's hands doesn't always do that. To stream 13 WTHR on your phone, you ...

INDIANAPOLIS – On the same day Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears gave a news conference slamming Indiana's red flag law for not giving him enough time to build a court case against the FedEx ...

Red flag laws are a favorite target of gun-rights advocates, who say they trample on the U.S. Constitution and amount to nothing more than a flimsy attempt to disarm law-abiding gun owners.

Indiana passed one of the nation's first red flag laws back in 2005, following the death of an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officer. Known as the Jake Laird Law, the Indiana statute allows law ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Since the FedEx shooting one year ago, questions have been raised about Indiana’s red flag law and how it’s used and enforced. Indiana became the second state in the nation to ...

How a ‘Red Flag’ Law Failed in Indiana A gunman killed eight people at a FedEx facility last week, despite legislation that sought to prevent people like him from acquiring weapons.

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