Sponsor: Representative Billy Bob Faulkingham | Current Status: REFERRED to the Committee on JUDICIARY

This bill repeals the requirement that a seller of firearms wait 72 hours before delivering a purchased firearm to the buyer.

Sponsor: Rep. Chad Perkins | Current Status: DEAD

This bill removes the duty of a person exercising self-defense in an encounter to, if the person can do so safely, retreat from the encounter or comply with a demand to abstain from performing an act that the person is not obliged to perform before using deadly force.

Sponsor: Representative Joshua Morris | Current Status: DEAD

This bill provides that the current prohibition on the discharge of a firearm within 500 feet of a school does not apply to a person acting pursuant to the laws governing the use of force in defense of premises.

Sponsor: Representative Melanie Sachs | Current Status: Passed to Be Enacted

This bill prohibits a person from engaging in conduct that constitutes doxing when the target of the doxing is a minor. It also authorizes a family member, legal guardian or representative of a minor who is a target of doxing in violation of that prohibition to bring a civil action on behalf of the minor for injunctive relief, actual damages, compensatory damages, punitive damages, any combination of those remedies or any other appropriate relief.

Sponsor: Senator Anne Carney | Current Status: DEAD

This bill modifies the provision of the Maine Criminal Code defining "machine gun" to include any part or combination of parts designed and intended for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun. The bill enacts a provision that makes it a Class D crime for a person to knowingly possess a rapid-fire device without authority to do so. A rapid-fire device is a device, part or combination of parts that is not a machine gun and that materially increases the rate of fire of a semi-automatic firearm above the rate of fire of the semi-automatic firearm absent the device, part or combination of parts. With respect to the definitions of "machine gun" and "rapid-fire device," the bill provides a nonexhaustive list of examples describing the types of devices that would satisfy each general definition

Sponsor: Rep. Marygrace Cimino | Current Status: DEAD

This bill allows a person to possess and discharge a firearm on school property if that person is not a student at that school, is 21 years of age or older and possesses a permit to carry a concealed handgun.

Sponsor: Rep. Jennifer Poirier | Current Status: DEAD

This bill amends the law governing background checks of firearms buyers to eliminate background checks for private sales of firearms.

Sponsor: Rep. Daniel Sayre | Current Status: DEAD

Under current law, it is a Class D crime to negligently store a loaded firearm in a manner that allows a child under 16 years of age to gain access to the loaded firearm without the permission of the child's parent. This bill repeals that law and makes it a Class D crime to negligently store a firearm so that a minor or person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm may gain access to the firearm and either use it in the commission of a crime or display it in a threatening manner. The bill also makes it a Class C crime to negligently store a firearm in a way so that a minor or prohibited person may gain access to the firearm and use it to cause the death of or serious bodily injury to any person. The bill also requires licensed firearms dealers to post a notice in any area where sales or transfers occur informing purchasers that access to a firearm in the home significantly increases the risk of suicide, death during domestic violence disputes and unintentional death of children.

Sponsor: Rep. Quentin Chapman | Current Status: Carry Over Requested

This bill repeals the requirement that a seller of firearms wait 72 hours before delivering a purchased firearm to the buyer

Sponsor: Senator Rachel Talbot Ross | Current Status: DEAD

This bill prohibits a person from intentionally or knowingly storing a handgun in an unoccupied motor vehicle unless the handgun is stored out of plain view in a locked hard-sided container and the motor vehicle, including the trunk, is locked. The bill includes a number of exceptions to this prohibition. A person who violates this prohibition commits a civil violation for which a fine of not less than $200 and not more than $500 may be adjudged, except that a person who violates the prohibition after having previously been adjudicated as violating the prohibition may be adjudged a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000.