Professional Training and Public Education Can Support Extreme Risk Protection Order Utilization: A Qualitative Study of Professionals in Oregon.
Twenty-one states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have passed Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws, risk-based firearm removal policies intended to reduce firearm violence. Oregon's ERPO law, which went into effect in 2018, allows family/household members and law enforcem...
| Publicado en: | Inquiry (00469580) Vol. 62; pp. 1 - 10 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
9/1/2025
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