Maine Lawmakers Reach Red Flag Bill Compromise

By Tom Knighton

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Democrats in Maine set their sights on gun control early on. What they want are universal background checks, despite Maine voters having already put the kibosh on that one back in 2016.

To make matters worse, Democratic Governor Janet Mills put her stamp on that by saying the voters had already decided the issue. In other words, legislators could pass it, but Mills would veto it.

Universal background checks were a non-starter, and everyone knew it.

That didn’t mean there wasn’t a whole litany of bad ideas for anti-gun lawmakers to draw from. Instead of shrugging and working on other stuff, they shifted down to number two on their list, and that was red flag laws.

Red flag laws are as contentious as universal background checks, if not worse. After all, most people won’t be impacted by universal background checks since most people buy their guns from licensed dealers. However, red flag laws could impact every one of us.

Now, lawmakers have reached a compromise which may saddle the state with a red flag law after all.

Someone familiar with negotiations said on condition of anonymity that a drafted compromise would allow police to take guns from people in a format …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms