gun laws

Published
March 17, 2024

Our View: Sharpened focus on mental health will improve gun laws

Testimony before the Legislature's Judiciary Committee last week rightly focused the superiority of the red flag law and the imperative to reduce the state suicide rate.
Published
March 8, 2024

Spending bill would ease access to guns for some veterans declared mentally incapable

Veterans whom the government declares incapable of managing their own affairs would have easier access to firearms under spending legislation expected to be signed by President Joe Biden in the coming days
Published
March 7, 2024

Physicians, gun owners, activists pack Maine State House for hearing on gun reform

Dozens of people testified for and against a pair of bills that include expanding background check requirements to advertised private firearms sales and a 72-hour waiting period on purchases.
Published
February 28, 2024

Maine Democrats unveil gun safety and mental health bills. The partisan battles begin.

A 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases, a ban on bump stocks and a network of mental health crisis centers are among the measures Democratic leaders in the Legislature have proposed in response to the mass shooting in Lewiston.
Published
February 27, 2024

Gun safety debate about to heat up in Maine State House

One bill to be unveiled Wednesday calls for a 72-hour waiting period on firearm purchases, a measure that has previously been defeated by the Democratic controlled Legislature.

Published
February 22, 2024

Tensions rise as Legislature prepares to debate gun safety in wake of Lewiston shooting

A partisan fight over the hearing process for Gov. Janet Mills' proposal to expand background checks on firearm sales and increase access to crisis mental health care suggests a bipartisan compromise may be elusive even after the mass shooting.
Published
February 14, 2024

How did the Texas megachurch shooter buy a rifle despite her mental illness and criminal history?

Key questions remain about motive, and police have given no details about where and how she obtained the rifle in December.
Published
February 1, 2024

Maine governor seeks to navigate treacherous terrain of gun reform

Gov. Janet Mills' proposal to require background checks for some private firearm sales gives new momentum to an idea that has been defeated multiple times. But political analysts say proponents still will have to overcome Maine's tradition of hunting and gun ownership.
Published
January 25, 2024

National gun safety group focuses on reforms in Maine

Everytown for Gun Safety is joining with Moms Demand Action and a Maine state senator to push for significant reforms in Maine to prevent more violence like the mass shooting in Lewiston.
Published
January 5, 2024

New gun law has blocked over 500 firearms from being bought by young people, attorney general says

The 2022 law was passed after a series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.

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