{"id":101651,"date":"2024-05-02T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101651"},"modified":"2024-05-02T13:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T18:58:54","slug":"101651","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101651","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Maine Gov. Mills Allows 3-Day Wait, Vetoes Bump Stock Ban<\/a><\/p>\n

Maine Gov. Janet Mills will allow a bill mandating a three-day waiting period on gun purchases to become law without her signature, while she vetoed legislaton that would have banned \u201cbump stocks\u201d in what may have been an effort to give up something to those opposed to the gun control package.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0News Center Maine<\/a>, the waiting period bill \u201cdrew fierce opposition from Republicans\u201d and in a state with a long tradition, and high rate of lawful gun ownership, penalizing honest gun owners for crimes they did not commit is not going over well.<\/p>\n

It does not appear bump stocks have been a problem in Maine. The story only referenced the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas\u20142,500 miles away\u2014in which the killer used rifles fitted with bump stocks.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Associated Press<\/a>\u00a0is reporting that Mills, a Democrat, was allowing the waiting period bill to become law \u201cwith caveats and concerns.\u201d She plans to \u201cmonitor\u201d any challenges relating to waiting period laws in other states.<\/p>\n

Mills had earlier inked legislation to strengthen Maine\u2019s \u201cyellow flag\u201d law and expand background checks to be required for private gun sales. The Democrat-controlled Legislature did not vote on a \u201cred flag\u201d proposal, which have been criticized by Second Amendment advocates because of due process concerns.<\/p>\n

This rush to restrict gun ownership in the Pine Tree State is the Democrats\u2019 response to last October\u2019s mass shooting at two different locations in Lewiston. The killer was an Army reservist who had been evaluated last summer at a hospital in New York state, where he was training. After murdering 18 people, he hid in a trailer and took his own life.<\/p>\n

There is no indication that a waiting period would have prevented the tragedy, and also no report that a bump stock was involved with the crime.<\/p>\n

Maine is one of the safest states in the country. According to the FBI\u00a0Crime Data Explorer<\/a>, in 2022\u2014the most recent year for which data is available\u2014the state logged only 29 homicide \u201cincidents\u201d and 30 \u201coffenses.\u201d Handguns were used in nine incidents, knives\/cutting instruments accounted for seven more, unidentified firearms were used in three killings and a shotgun was involved in one slaying. Maine\u2019s crime rate is well below the national average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maine Gov. Mills Allows 3-Day Wait, Vetoes Bump Stock Ban Maine Gov. Janet Mills will allow a bill mandating a three-day waiting period on gun purchases to become law without her signature, while she vetoed legislaton that would have banned \u201cbump stocks\u201d in what may have been an effort to give up something to those … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101652,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101651\/revisions\/101652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}