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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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