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Guns

Published
June 10, 2022

Maine Voices: America’s gun laws contribute to bloodshed abroad

Gun ownership is tightly restricted in Mexico, but guns smuggled across the border from the U.S. make crime there more deadly.
Published
June 4, 2022

Uvalde victim’s family, staffer signal possible legal action against gunmaker

Gunmaker Daniel Defense has come under scrutiny in the days since Salvador Ramos, 18, used a DDM4 rifle to unload hundreds of rounds of ammunition in the worst shooting at an American school in nearly a decade.
Published
May 31, 2022

Portland police investigate Memorial Day shootings

Weapons were discharged Monday night at 3 separate locations in Portland within the span of 90 minutes.
Published
May 27, 2022

Police waited as children inside Texas school called 911 begging for help

The commander at the scene in Uvalde believed that 18-year-old gunman was barricaded inside adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary School and that children were no longer at risk.
Published
May 2, 2022

Augusta City Council gives police approval to sell some guns in evidence locker, destroy those used in crimes

Augusta Police Department to sell 62 guns and destroy 57 it has acquired over the years.

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Published
April 8, 2022

State police shooting of Thorndike man in 2019 found to be justified

Trooper Thomas Bureau II reasonably believed Eric Fitzpatrick, then 33, was about to use unlawful deadly force against him when he shot Fitzpatrick in 2019, the state Attorney General's Office determined.
Published
March 18, 2022

Airline passenger traffic dropped during the pandemic. The TSA seized more guns than ever.

In 2021, the Transportation Security Administration caught 5,972 firearms at airport checkpoints, the most ever.
Published
January 14, 2022

Our View: Safe storage should be required of every gun owner

Mandating that firearms be stored unloaded and locked will help save kids’ lives.
Published
December 8, 2021

Sagadahoc police launch gun safety program in light of unintentional shootings by children

Nationwide, 25% of all gun owners reported storing all of their guns in an unlocked location in their home, and 4.6 million minors live in homes with loaded, unlocked firearms, according to a national nonprofit.
Published
November 28, 2021

Insight: Are we ready for more guns at protests?

The Rittenhouse verdict could make armed civilians a normal occurrence at political events, changing the composition of who is willing to participate