Legislature will consider lots of gun bills

The Maine legislature will debate lots of gun bills this session. So far, all we have are titles and sponsors, and I will share those with you today.

As the details of each bill emerge, I will write about them. Here is the list of titles and sponsors.

Title: An Act To Prohibit Large-capacity Magazines – Rep. Barbara Cardone of Bangor

Title: An Act To Protect Children by Requiring the Safe Storage of Loaded Firearms – Rep. Vicki Doudera of Camden

Title: An Act To Implement an Electronic Background Check for Firearms Licenses and Permits – Rep. Ryan Fecteau of Biddeford

Title: An Act To Allow a Valid Maine Concealed Handgun Permit To Serve as a Background Check To Purchase a Firearm from a Licensed Firearm Dealer – Rep. John Andrews of Paris

Title: An Act Regarding Access to Firearms by Extremely Dangerous and Suicidal Individuals – Sen. Rebecca Millett of Cumberland

Title: An Act To Allow Municipalities To Prohibit Weapons at Municipal Public Proceedings and Voting Places – Sen. Cathy Breen of Cumberland

Title: An Act To Protect Children from Accidental Injury Due to Unsafe Storage of Firearms – Rep. Anne Perry of Calais

Title: An Act To Allow Municipalities To Prohibit Weapons at Municipal Public Proceedings and Voting Places –  Rep. Matt Moonen of Portland

Title: An Act To Establish a Statewide Voluntary Firearm Collection Day and Ongoing Program – Rep. Heidi Brooks of Lewiston

Title: An Act To Promote the Safe Use and Sale of Firearms – Rep. Barbara Cardone of Bangor

Title: An Act To Require Background Checks for All Private Firearm Sales or Transfers – Sen. Dave Miramant of Knox

Title: An Act Regarding Gun Control – Rep. Matthea Daughtry of Brunswick

Title: An Act To Reduce Suicides and Violent Crimes by Providing Waiting Periods for the Sale of Firearms – Sen. Brownie Carson of Cumberland

Title: An Act To Allow School Employees To Carry Firearms on School Property – Rep. Steven Foster of Dexter

George Smith

About George Smith

George stepped down at the end of 2010 after 18 years as the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to write full time. He writes a weekly editorial page column in the Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel, a weekly travel column in those same newspapers (with his wife Linda), monthly columns in The Maine Sportsman magazine, two outdoor news blogs (one on his website, georgesmithmaine.com, and one on the website of the Bangor Daily News), and special columns for many publications and newsletters. Islandport Press published a book of George's favorite columns, "A Life Lived Outdoors" in 2014. In 2014, George also won a Maine Press Association award for writing the state's bet sports blog. In 2016, Down East Books published George's book, Maine Sporting Camps, and Islandport Press published George and his wife Linda's travel book, Take It From ME, about their favorite Maine inns and restaurants.