Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting (San Francisco) the author of a bill that allows law enforcement and family members to ask a court to issue a restraining order to take guns away from individuals they believe are dangerous, recently noted that, “If Florida had what we have in California, a gun violence restraining order, people could have acted,” Ting said. “What we had [in Orlando] is law enforcement had concerns, this person’s wife had concerns.”

Would this law have prevented the Orlando tragedy?

Asm. Ting is now looking to expand his original bill.

Under Assembly Bill 2607, the legation would “broadens who can request a gun violence restraining order (GVRO) with the court to include an employer, a coworker, a mental health worker, and an employee of a high school or university.”

It is important to note that, “California law bans the sale of AR-15-style assault weapons like the one reportedly in possession of Omar Mateen when he killed 49 people and wounded more than 50 others at a nightclub in Orlando.”