Posted April 19, 2017 1:12 pm by Comments

By John Falkenberg

AUGUSTA, MAINE — Maine legislature is considering a bill that would permit concealed carriers to carry on college campuses, The Forecaster reports.

According to The Forecaster, the bill, LD 1370, would impact the University of Southern Maine as well as the Southern Maine Community College. Private universities would not be affected.

According to a summary of the bill provided from the state legislature’s website:

“This bill provides that the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine System, the Board of Trustees of the Maine Community College System and the Board of Trustees of the Maine Maritime Academy may adopt rules and establish policies relating to firearms except that these rules and policies may not regulate or prohibit the otherwise lawful possession, carrying or transporting of firearms or ammunition by a person issued a permit to carry a concealed handgun under the Maine Revised Statutes…”

Carriers would not be permitted to carry in certain places — dorms, foremost, are not included in this bill.

“The bill also provides, with certain exceptions, that a person issued a permit to carry a concealed handgun… may not carry a concealed weapon within a student dormitory or residence hall or within a building of a …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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