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ME: Eye on Augusta: Two Groups Submit Petitions for Minimum Wage Increase, Gun Background Checks
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On Tuesday, the group Moms Demand Action announced that it has collected 85,000 signatures to put a measure on the November ballot that would close the gun show and private sale “loopholes” by requiring a criminal background check before every firearm sale or transfer in Maine. Under the proposal, if neither party to a sale or transfer has a federal firearms license, they must meet at a registered firearms dealer who can conduct a background check on the transferee and can complete the sale or transfer as though selling or transferring from the dealer’s own inventory. The proposed law would exempt the requirement for transfers between family members, while hunting or sport shooting, or for emergency self-defense. |
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PHORTO
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This, from the state that graced us with Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.
Butch up, Maine. You're embarrassing the rest of us. |
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| "Some people think that the Second Amendment is an outdated relic of an earlier time. Doubtless some also think that constitutional protections of other rights are outdated relics of earlier times. We The People own those rights regardless, unless and until We The People repeal them. For those who believe it to be outdated, the Second Amendment provides a good test of whether their allegiance is really to the Constitution of the United States, or only to their preferences in public policies and audiences. The Constitution is law, not vague aspirations, and we are obligated to protect, defend, and apply it. If the Second Amendment were truly an outdated relic, the Constitution provides a method for repeal. The Constitution does not furnish the federal courts with an eraser." --9th Circuit Court Judge Andrew Kleinfeld, dissenting opinion in which the court refused to rehear the case while citing deeply flawed anti-Second Amendment nonsense (Nordyke v. King; opinion filed April 5, 2004) |
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