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PublishedJune 23, 2022
Highlights of bipartisan gun violence bill signed by Biden
The law is wide-ranging but chiefly makes modest changes in existing programs.
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PublishedJune 22, 2022
Ghastly shootings, political forces align to prompt gun deal
Last month's mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, have produced a groundswell for change in Congress.
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
Maine Voices: From under a desk, a silent student bears witness with a poem
The children are watching, a teacher pleads, and they can see we are not keeping them safe.
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PublishedJune 16, 2022
Senate bargainers divided over details of gun deal
Democratic and Republican senators struggle to finalize details of a gun violence compromise in time for their self-imposed deadline of holding votes in Congress next week.
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PublishedJune 15, 2022
Maine Voices: Lawmakers should ban assault-style weapons
The common factor in all mass shootings is not mental illness but access to guns, a child psychiatrist writes.
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PublishedJune 13, 2022
Tentative Senate gun deal has surprises, and loose ends
The plan reflects election-year pressure to act, which both parties feel after mass shootings in May killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York, and 21 more in Uvalde, Texas.
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PublishedJune 12, 2022
Collins believes bipartisan gun deal stands good chance of passage in Senate
Maine's senior U.S. senator, who was a member of a bipartisan committee that negotiated the tentative agreement, says, 'I really think we have to succeed this time, and I think we will succeed.'
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PublishedJune 12, 2022
Don’t expect Maine to join the gun control debate, especially in an election year
The state has a high rate of gun ownership, driven primarily by hunters, and past efforts to restrict firearms and hunting have only motivated gun rights supporters to turn out to vote.
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PublishedJune 10, 2022
Governors forming task force to address mass shootings
Reaching consensus could be a tall order given that the nation's governors have been divided along partisan lines on how to approach issues of gun control and school safety.
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PublishedJune 10, 2022
March for Our Lives returns with a renewed gun control push
About 50,000 participants are predicted to turn out in the District of Columbia Saturday for the second March For Our Lives rally.
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