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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Peggy Rotundo, D-Lewiston, said half of Maine’s 277 suicides in 2021 involved a gun and she believes the waiting period will reduce the number of suicides by ...

(The Center Square) — A federal judge has blocked a Maine law requiring a three-day waiting period to buy a firearm in response to a legal challenge filed by gun dealers who argue the ...

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 ...