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PublishedNovember 17, 2024
Our View: Challenge to gun sale waiting period puts lawmakers’ seriousness to the test
Yes, we all saw this coming. That doesn’t make it any less vexing.
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PublishedNovember 11, 2024
Advocates say red flag gun safety petition got big boost on Election Day
The Gun Safety Coalition of Maine wants to make it easier for family members to petition a court to take firearms away from loved ones deemed a danger to themselves or others.
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PublishedOctober 31, 2024
Records show a conflicted Gov. Mills under pressure over fate of gun waiting period
Emails and internal records shed new light on the pressure Gov. Janet Mills faced as she came to a decision not to veto the 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases.
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PublishedOctober 15, 2024
Sen. King’s gun reform bill stalls in Congress
Despite being introduced last November in the wake of the Lewiston mass shooting, the GOSAFE Act has not gotten a hearing in the Senate.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2024
Supreme Court seems open to upholding regulations on ghost guns, hard-to-trace weapons linked to crime
The manufacturers and gun rights groups challenging the rule argued the Biden administration overstepped by trying to regulate kits for quickly making nearly untraceable guns at home.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2024
Gun safety coalition launches campaign to get a red flag law on the Maine ballot
The effort comes after lawmakers failed to advance an extreme-risk protection order bill in the wake of the mass shooting in Lewiston last October.
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2024
Sens. Collins, King co-sponsor bill requiring military to use state crisis intervention laws
The bill would require the armed services to utilize state laws, such as Maine's yellow flag law, to disarm people who are a threat to themselves and others. It was introduced a little less than one year after the state's deadliest mass shooting.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2024
Life After Artie: Lewiston shooting victim’s father finds purpose in gun reform
Before his son was killed in the massacre last fall, Arthur Barnard hadn't voted in decades, flown on a plane or met with U.S. senators. All of that has changed.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2024
How to keep guns off Bourbon Street? Designate a police station as a school
The designation will instantly outlaw gun possession in the surrounding French Quarter area of New Orleans.
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PublishedJune 25, 2024
U.S. surgeon general declares gun violence a public health emergency
Dr. Vivek Murthy calls on the U.S. to ban automatic rifles, introduce universal background checks for purchasing guns, regulate the industry, pass laws that would restrict their use in public spaces and penalize people who fail to safely store their weapons.
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