Overview
- Speaking in Southport, Stein called for an extreme risk protection order to let judges temporarily remove guns from people deemed dangerous.
- He also urged stronger mental-health funding and closer coordination between clinicians and local law enforcement.
- The call followed the arrest of Nigel Edge, accused of firing into the American Fish Company restaurant, killing three people and injuring others.
- Edge is a 40-year-old Marine Corps veteran who was previously restricted by a Brunswick County court from filing additional lawsuits after conspiratorial claims.
- North Carolina has no ERPO law even though 21 states do; Democrats’ HB 732 remains in House Rules while Republican leaders advanced a separate crime bill without ERPOs and criticized Stein for not yet signing it.