The Maine legislature on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday approved several sweeping gun control measures, including increased waiting periods, background checks, expansion of court-ordered firearm ...

In addition, Democratic state Senator Peggy Rotundo, who sponsored the bill, noted that 50 percent of Maine's 277 suicides in 2021 involved a firearm. The measure also comes as increased gun ...

Gun safety steps taken Thursday came hours after Maine’s Senate agreed to a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases. The governor will review that bill as well as another that would ban bump stocks.

House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, is sponsoring the bill, L.D. 168, and has argued that the lack of background checks makes Maine a destination for criminal gun purchases. Advertisement ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WGME) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law on Friday that expands background checks, makes changes to the “yellow flag” law, and strengthens the state's mental ...

The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Peggy Rotundo, a Democrat, said half of Maine’s 277 suicides involved a gun in the latest data from 2021 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - Maine Senators have chosen not to pass a bill that would require a background check on private gun sales. The vote was 13-21. The bill narrowly passed in the House on ...

Opinion: Firearm rights are under continued assault in Maine The 72-hour waiting period endangers women in urgent need of self-defense and causes economic damage to rural communities. Posted ...

The 72-hour "cooling off" period was a provision of a broader gun-control bill Democratic lawmakers through the House and Senate in response to the Oct. 25, 2023 Lewiston massacre, when an Army ...

Maine's 72-hour waiting period gun bill a response to Lewiston mass shooting. Maine's waiting period bill, LD 2238, was sponsored by state Sen. Peggy Rotundo, a Democrat from Lewiston.

Maine's 72-hour waiting period gun bill a response to Lewiston mass shooting. Maine's waiting period bill, LD 2238, was sponsored by state Sen. Peggy Rotundo, a Democrat from Lewiston.

G un rights advocacy groups in Maine are taking legal action to challenge and overturn a newly implemented 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchases, claiming it infringes on constitutional rights.