A bill that some are calling Kentucky's version of a red flag law has yet to be filed in Frankfurt.

Republican state Senator Whitney Westerfield is working on the so-called Card Act, which stands for crisis aversion and writes for attention.

The bill seeks to protect those in mental or emotional distress from hurting themselves or others.

Today, a group of advocates called a Safer Kentucky Network rallied in the Capitol Rotunda and supported the proposed legislation.

They were joined by members of two other groups Whitney Strong and Moms Demand Action.

Car is a bipartisan bill that has had support as far back as 2019 that is focused on helping gun owners.

Gun owners have crisis moments just like anybody else.

And we need a tool to be able to press pause and give them help and make sure that they do not have access to a firearm when they are in need.

The best solutions come when both sides of the aisle work together.

But secondly, it's important because of the makeup of this state, you know, in order for any policy to really move in this state, you're going to need to get both sides involved.

And so we're happy to represent doing work in that way.

I am a Republican.

I am a gun owner.

I am from a rural part of this state.

And I am so overwhelmed and distressed by the amount of gun tragedies that we are seeing every day that what might previously been seen as a division, Republican, Democrat, urban, rural gun owner, not those divisions have all broken away because we are so heartbroken and frankly, we're so scared about gun violence that now those divisions are really of the past and the future is this new majority that just wants common sense.

Groups in favor of the CAR Act say they have plans to continue pushing lawmakers to consider moving the legislation forward.