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O'Hayer: Let's start, of course, with reaction in the state to the shootings in El Paso and Dayton. One idea that has come up is so-called red-flag legislation which would allow courts to temporarily block people from getting guns if they pose a danger to themselves or others.

Let's start with the legal side because there's a legal and political side to this. Can the state do anything on its own or is it a scenario where it is up to the state?

Olens: So, I think that the federal government's role is more if they want to provide grant dollars and use the bully pulpit but it's a state issue. And clearly the discussion is compliance with due process. Having an appropriate standard such as clear-and-convincing evidence, and requiring that promptly there will be a court hearing with the party who would be losing the weapons having the ability to show that they should be able to retain them.

O'Hayer: Is it time for the state to take another look at this?

Olens: Look, I think the state needs to change its laws. You know, the GBI for years supported changing Georgia law where after five years you purge the records of folks that lost the right to have a weapon because they were involuntarily hospitalized due to mental illness. That's ridiculous. There's nothing magical about five years. It should require that you get documentation from a doctor, and upon that documentation from a doctor you potentially would then regain that right.

O'Hayer: Yeah, because the purging after five years is kind of arbitrary, is what I think you are saying.

Olens: Well and frankly dangerous to society and dangerous to law enforcement.