Governor Paul LePage: Question 3 should be called the Gun Registry Bill — Question 3 on the November ballot calls for Universal Background Checks on all private sales and transfer on firearms. But it is unenforceable; it creates an unfunded mandate; and it is the first step toward gun registration. Hello, this is Governor Paul LePage. The name of this proposal is misleading. Universal Background Checks are not “universal” because criminals will never follow this law. Criminals get guns by breaking existing laws. They steal them, buy them on the black market or use straw purchasers. Less than one percent of criminals get firearms from dealers at gun shows.
Audio from the Governor – http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/attach.php?id=718144&an=1
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| Sheriffs’ from around the state are joining together and opposing Question 3 which would expand background checks to virtually all firearm transfers or sales. Question 3 on the November ballot will require the buyer and seller of a gun to meet at a licensed dealer, where a background check will be done. Exceptions include emergency self-defense, while the parties are hunting or sport shooting together, and transfers between family members. Now 12 of the 16 Sheriffs in Maine have signed an opposition letter to Question 3. |
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| Today, the undersigned Sheriffs in the State of Maine announce our formal opposition to Question 3, a ballot initiative expanding firearm background checks that will appear on the ballot this fall. We strongly believe the people of Maine should know that the Chief Law Enforcement Officer from 12 of the 16 counties who are elected to protect your families and homes do not support the Question 3 ballot initiative. |
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| FAIRFAX, Va.— The National Rifle Association today launched a $6.5 million ad buy in support of Donald Trump for President, its largest of the 2016 election cycle. The new ad, titled “Kristi,” tells the real-life story of how the right to self-defense saved an innocent woman’s life. The spot will air on national cable and satellite, as well as regional broadcast in the battleground states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Ohio. It also includes an aggressive digital ad campaign. |
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| Starting Wednesday, the NRA is spending $6.5 million on a spot featuring a 26-year-old lawyer named Kristi McMains, who said the pistol in her purse saved her life when a man attacked her in a parking garage. |
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| Kaine’s positions on gun control have become more stringent over time, reflecting his years in elected office in his home state of Virginia. |
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| Roanoke City Council’s legislative committee is not only sticking by its controversial push to limit open carry of firearms in the city, it now wants the right to ban weapons from its public buildings. |
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| The Northern Marianas governor says he is dismayed by many of the rulings of the NMI District Court following last week’s ruling against a gun excise tax.The Court found the US$1,000 excise tax on guns was unconstitutional. |
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| A North Devon farmer has been warned he is at risk of a mandatory five-year jail sentence for possessing an illegal pistol, even though the weapon was rusty and unusable.Nigel Early, 57, said he believed the short-barrelled Colt .25 pistol was a replica and had kept in his gun cabinet for years without realising it was a banned weapon. |
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| On the November 2016 ballot, Indiana voters will be asked to approve NRA-supported Question 1, which is an amendment to the Indiana Constitution guaranteeing the right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife as an individual right. As previously reported, ballot language for Question 1 was created by Senate Bill 57, which passed the House of Representatives with a 47 to 7 vote and the Senate with a 95 to 1 vote. SB 57 was signed by Governor Mike Pence (R) on March 21, 2016. |
