A mom who lost her son in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, 13 years ago, and is now the CEO of Sandy Hook Promise , says red flag laws can help save lives.

"We advocate for things like extreme risk protection orders which in time we'll figure out if that could have been used here to help prevent this tragedy," Nicole Hockley said.

Minnesota does have a red flag Law. It allows family, law enforcement or city and county attorneys to ask for an Extreme Risk Protection Order or ERPO. The law is designed to take guns out of the hands of people in a moment of crisis. They can petition the court to have a person's guns removed or to temporarily prohibit someone from buying a gun for a period of time

In the first year of the law in Minnesota , which was

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