A Montgomery County Republican lawmaker Aug. 5 renewed his call for a law to establish Extreme Risk Protection Orders that would disarm people who are shown to be a danger to themselves and others.

State Rep. Todd Stephens, R-Montgomery, in the immediate wake of the El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, shootings, asked House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, Majority Leader Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Rob Kauffman, R-Franklin, to take up the measure, known as a “red flag law.”