Martha Bellisle from the Associate Press writes on our launch yesterday:

King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said families of suicidal or violent people will sometimes try to get them held under the state’s civil commitment law, but “committing someone for involuntary treatment is very difficult. The bar is very high.”

The extreme-risk protection orders are a lower bar, but still require a judge’s approval before firearms could be taken away, he said.

“I don’t know who would be against disarming somebody who a judge has found to be dangerous,” he said. “It’s not permanent. It’s not something that’s going to be easily abused.

Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole said the orders are a common-sense, practical approach to preventing gun violence.

“People who may harm themselves, harm those they love or harm first-responders coming to their aid should not have easy access to firearms,” she said.

Read the full story here, via The Olympian.