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Saturday, May 23, 2026

Making sure that firearms surrender orders are enforced

Successful partnership reduced domestic violence crimes

Since 2018, King County’s Regional Domestic Violence Firearms Enforcement Unit has worked to ensure firearm surrender orders in domestic violence cases are actually enforced.

The partnership (between the King County Prosecutor’s Office, King County Sheriff’s Office, Seattle City Attorney’s Office & Seattle Police), has led to a 27% drop in crimes committed by people ordered to surrender firearms and reduced crime severity by more than 20%.

This is life-saving work for domestic violence survivors: because when domestic violence abusers have access to firearms the rate of intimate partner homicide increases by 500%.



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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 23, 2026 at 9:49 AM

    ERPOs and red flag laws save lives. Pass them everywhere. Love, a local gun nut

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    1. AnonymousMay 24, 2026 at 10:02 AM

      I’m all in favor of removing guns from violent offenders. ‘Red Flags Laws’ violate the rights of innocent people who must flight to have a constitutional right restored. There are better ways and laws to deal with threats an violating the constitution.

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  2. AnonymousMay 24, 2026 at 9:55 AM

    Now to figure out how to keep people who shouldn't have guns from re-acquiring them.

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