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 forf ...

Gun rights advocacy groups in Maine are challenging the state's new 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchases.

Maine lawmakers voted to pass gun safety measures to make firearms harder to procure. Six month ago the state experienced its worst mass shooting in Lewiston.

But supporters of the bill says there are loopholes that allows those prohibited from having a gun to buy one from a private sale or at a gun show. Lauren LePage, who is with the National Riffle ...

Incentivizing NICS Checks for Unadvertised, Private Sale s: The bill strengthens Maine law to make it easier to prosecute anyone who sells a gun to someone not allowed to have one and toughens ...

(The Center Square) — A coalition of gun rights groups is suing Maine over a law requiring a three-day waiting period to buy a firearm, arguing that the new requirements violate the Constitution ...

Maine House narrowly passes bill to require background checks for private gun sales The House voted 69-68 for the bill, which is similar to a proposal defeated in a statewide referendum in 2016.

Kittery Trading Post objects to Maine bill poised to become law that would require a 72-hour waiting period on firearm purchases.

Democratic Maine Governor Janet Mills said Monday she will allow one of a final pair of gun safety bills — a waiting period for gun purchases — to become law without her signature in the wake ...

After a gunman killed 18 people last year at a bowling alley and a bar in Maine, legislators pledged to revisit the state’s gun laws.

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.

Gun 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.