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Laws That Allow for Temporarily Removing Guns from High-Risk People Linked to a Reduction in Suicides

For every 10.5 guns collected under Connecticut’s policy, one person was stopped from taking his or her own life, researchers estimate.

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    Such measures allow judges to issue orders instructing police to temporarily confiscate firearms when officers, or in some instances, family members, assert that an individual poses a threat.

    Yeah, no way that could ever be abused.

    That rough estimate equates to one averted suicide for every 10 to 11 guns seized in Connecticut.

    So, 9-10% effective, by their own estimation.. The other ~90% property seizures are just collateral damage.

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