Maine Consider Bill That Would Allow Guns In Private Vehicles On School Grounds

By Tom Knighton

If you’re someone who carries concealed, a trip to your kids’ school may take on a special level of suck in your life depending on where you live. In many locations, it’s illegal to even have a firearm in your vehicle on school property, which means it’s impossible to just swing by while running other errands while armed. That means you need to make a special trip home, drop off your firearm, then go to the school, do whatever you need to do. If you have other things to do after that, then it means another trip home to arm yourself, then back out to finish your business.

It’s a pain.

In Maine, they’re considering a bill that will ease the pain a bit.

For the second year in a row, and one day after a deadly shooting at a Kentucky high school, Maine lawmakers will consider a bill that would allow people picking up or dropping off students at schools to have unloaded guns in the car.

A public hearing on the bill will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday before the Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee.

Federal law largely prohibits guns on K-12 campuses, but there are exceptions. The …Read the Rest

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