Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser told a panel of lawmakers Thursday that he will work with them to draft legislation to expand the state’s Extreme Risk Protection Order law, a stated goal of Gov. Jared Polis during the legislative session.

The ERPO law, also referred to as the red flag law and passed in 2019, allows certain law enforcement officials, roommates and family members to petition to have a firearm temporarily confiscated from a potentially harmful individual. Polis said in his State of the State address the ability to file a petition should be extended to people like district attorneys.

“I know this topic of the red flag law may come back to the Legislature this session. We’ll be happy to work with you on how we can improve it,” Weiser, a Democrat who was recently reelected for a second term, told a joint meeting of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. “We’re already committed to how we best educate and train law enforcement, as well as the public, about this important tool.”

The red flag law conversation was reignited after the Club Q mass shooting in Colorado Springs last year. The shooter had been previously arrested after a bomb threat and standoff with law enforcement, but the case was dropped and nobody sought a red flag order against them.

El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder has publicly expressed opposition to the red flag law and has never filed a petition.

Sen. Rhonda Fields, a Democrat from Aurora, questioned Weiser about the enforcement...

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