The money aims to help states administer “red-flag” laws and other crisis-intervention programs as part of the landmark bipartisan gun legislation passed by Congress over the summer.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is sending out more than $200 million to help states and the District of Columbia administer “red-flag” laws and other crisis-intervention programs as part of the landmark bipartisan gun legislation passed by Congress over the summer, officials said Tuesday.
Some of the $231 million in funding announced Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, will also go to crisis-intervention court proceedings and other gun-violence reduction programs.Suspect has died of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after a mass shooting at Michigan State University that killed 3, wounded 5
The suspect in a mass shooting targeting an LGBT nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in November, for example, had allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb a year and a half earlier, but there’s no public record that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado’s law. The funding is part of the $1.4 billion from the legislation provided to the Justice Department over five years for gun violence prevention measures.
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