According to a recent poll, 68 percent of Utahns support extreme risk protective orders (ERPOs) that would allow family members and police to ask a judge to temporarily remove firearms from someone who has threatened suicide or who poses an immediate threat to others.
Yet zero legislators have formally debated an ERPO bill — House Bill 209 — introduced by Rep. Steve Handy, and zero Utahns have testified for or against the bill because it is languishing in the House Rules Committee. That’s likely due in no small part to the efforts of the one NRA lobbyist who is working to kill the ERPO bill.