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Two major news developments this week – one tragic, the other more political – overshadowed other events in Maine this week. And both could impact policy debates in Augusta and around the state in the coming months.

A Turner woman has been arrested for allegedly buying 55 guns in Maine and giving them to other people in California.

Canadian officials say a failure in border policies was partly responsible for the gunman illegally smuggling multiple firearms from Maine and using them in Canada's deadliest mass shooting.

A Maine law has been described as a potential national model for keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous or suicidal individuals. But the state's so-called yellow flag law has only been used two dozen times in two years, and prosecutors say the law has both advantages and limitations.

In this week’s Pulse: Biden's gas tax holiday, bipartisan gun deal advances, SCOTUS on Maine schools, and waiting on the Dobbs v. Jackson decision.

King says the outline agreed to is pretty detailed, and thus, likely to hold on to the GOP votes needed to get through the Senate.

The group of roughly 200 students marched through downtown Portland before converging outside of Maine Sen. Susan Collins' Portland office, where they demanded the Republican Senator take action to ban assault-style weapons.

While there are some trends that may make gun violence less likely here, the state is “lucky” it hasn’t seen a high-profile mass shooting, according to Michael Rocque, a criminologist at Bates College who grew up in Maine and has studied the circumstances around mass shootings.

This week’s tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, has unfortunately sparked what is by now a predictable – and predictably partisan – debate on Capitol Hill about how to deal with mass shootings and gun violence.

Members of Maine's congressional delegation reacted with horror to the school shooting in Texas that left 19 children and two adults dead. But with Congress seemingly locked in partisan gridlock over gun issues, members were unclear whether this latest mass shooting will change any of the political dynamics in Washington.