Owners also modify 2,700 firearms to make them legally compliant.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: In today’s classrooms, educators’ focus turns to keeping students alive
Teachers are taking lessons, and they’re on preparing for mass shootings, binding wounds and recognizing signs of abuse.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Gun background checks on pace to break record in 2019
On Black Friday alone, the FBI ran 202,465 checks.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Legislative leaders reject latest round of Maine gun-control measures
The Maine chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America faults top lawmakers for not allowing consideration of any of the 7 bills in the session that begins in January.
Posted inNation & World, News
Texas police officer charged with murder in shooting of woman in her home
The city is still reeling from an earlier fatal shooting involving a white officer and a black victim, and local leaders have called for a probe of the department after Atatiana Jefferson was shot through her window.
Posted inNation & World, News
Road rage leaves 2-year-old with gunshot wound in Baltimore
The boy was in ‘somewhat stable condition’ Saturday and was expected to survive, police say.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine bird hunter dies from unintentional, self-inflicted gunshot wound
Game wardens in Maine say they’re investigating the death of Mark Henderson of Eustis, who accidentally shot himself in the leg.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Colt to cease production of AR-15 rifles for civilians
The manufacturer’s president says there is an ‘adequate supply for modern sporting rifles for the foreseeable future.’
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Answer stores’ no-guns requests with demands of our own
By ‘respectfully requesting’ that customers not carry firearms, Walmart and other retailers are trying to take the path of least resistance.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Hunting: A brief history of sporting guns
With every war, the technology improves and eventually makes its way to the woods and fields.