LD 2283 Threatens Mainers' 2nd Amendment Rights!
Maine’s values and way of life are under intense attack – have you noticed? This time, the California-style plan is to sneak a radical Democrat bill, LD 2283, through at the end of this legislative session, allowing the state to begin identifying, targeting, restricting access to, and formally confiscating guns if someone is viewed as “threatening” via words, social media, or physically.
It goes well beyond Maine’s enacted “yellow flag laws,” to create a New Mexico-style “red flag law,” literally forcing Mainers to surrender firearms to law enforcement, as a consequence of a complaint that matches the legislature language.
Ironically, laws were already in place which might have sidelined the Lewiston shooter, but a law further restricting Mainers’ 2nd Amendment rights, permitting the gradual disarming of those who responsibly use guns, is wrong. Like so many bad ideas, this one was imported from outside the state to target gun owners – for being gun owners.
This law is irresponsible, unconstitutional, and has no place here. This is why we ask you to contact your state representatives now and tell them to oppose LD 2283. They need to hear how serious we are about our basic rights. If we do not speak up for our rights, they will disappear.
LD 2283 Threatens Mainers' 2nd Amendment Rights!
Maine’s values and way of life are under intense attack – have you noticed? This time, the California-style plan is to sneak a radical Democrat bill, LD 2283, through at the end of this legislative session, allowing the state to begin identifying, targeting, restricting access to, and formally confiscating guns if someone is viewed as “threatening” via words, social media, or physically.
It goes well beyond Maine’s enacted “yellow flag laws,” to create a New Mexico-style “red flag law,” literally forcing Mainers to surrender firearms to law enforcement, as a consequence of a complaint that matches the legislature language.
Ironically, laws were already in place which might have sidelined the Lewiston shooter, but a law further restricting Mainers’ 2nd Amendment rights, permitting the gradual disarming of those who responsibly use guns, is wrong. Like so many bad ideas, this one was imported from outside the state to target gun owners – for being gun owners.
This law is irresponsible, unconstitutional, and has no place here. This is why we ask you to contact your state representatives now and tell them to oppose LD 2283. They need to hear how serious we are about our basic rights. If we do not speak up for our rights, they will disappear.