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Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife cancelled a class on maintenance and cleaning for AR-style rifles after complaints alleging the event was in poor taste in light of the Lewiston mass shootings.
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Maine's independent says his bill — introduced with a New Mexico Democrat — targets the mechanisms that can make semi-automatic guns so deadly in mass shootings rather than the appearance of the guns.
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During its first meeting, the independent commission investigating Maine's worst mass shooting said subpoenas may be the only way to get the gunman's military and health records. The panel aims to produce a written report within six months.
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Police agencies across the state have invoked Maine's yellow flag law 14 times since Oct. 25 as they sought to temporarily prohibit someone from accessing their guns or other weapons, according to the latest figures from the attorney general’s office. Those incidents account for 15% of all yellow flag cases during the past three years.
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At a press conference at Lewiston City Hall on Thursday, Golden said that though he had previously opposed similar bans, he had a "false confidence" that his community was above deadly incidents.
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In the wake of Wednesday's shootings in Lewiston, several gun control groups are renewing the call for stricter firearm laws at both the state and national level.
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A detective with the Somerset County Sheriff's department has filed a lawsuit against New Hampshire-based gun manufacturer Sig Sauer, alleging that its P320 pistol unintentionally discharged and shot him in the line of duty.
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An April mass shooting has drawn renewed attention to a problem that arises with some regularity in Maine: people banned from having guns because of criminal or civil penalties are nevertheless getting them, and in some tragic cases, using them — contributing to a persistent problem of domestic violence killings and inflaming other forms of crime and violence.
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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.
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A Turner woman has been arrested for allegedly buying 55 guns in Maine and giving them to other people in California.