Maine: Bipartisan Coalition Deals Major Blow to Gun Control Bills in Committee

Dear [Lawmaker],

As a fellow Mainer, I urge you to OPPOSELD 677 and LD 1126 and vote "Ought not to pass" in your committee.

LD 677 creates a backdoor ban on commonly owned firearm parts by redefining a “machine gun” to include any semi-automatic firearm that includes parts that can “increase the rate of fire.” This poorly written bill attempts to sneak a so-called “rapid-fire modification ban” past Mainers in a bill completely unrelated to firearm parts. This legislation is so broad it could implicate a variety of firearm parts and aftermarket triggers. Additionally, commonly performed trigger modifications used in a wide array of legal activities, including shooting sports, hunting and self-defense could make an otherwise law-abiding individual susceptible to legal liability.

LD 1126 redefines firearms under Maine law to include both finished and unfinished receivers. This definition change also explicitly requires that all finished and unfinished frames, receivers, and homemade firearms must be serialized at an FFL. In addition to these new regulations, all "undetectable" firearms will be banned.  This would hinder law-abiding Mainers' ability to build and repair firearms in their homes and require them to obtain expensive serialization on firearms and firearm parts. This "ghost gun" scheme does not address criminal activity in Maine. Instead, it serves a national agenda to ban homemade firearms, which have been part of our nation's history since its inception.

Again, I urge you to OPPOSE these bills and vote "Ought not to pass" in your committee.

Thank you for all that you do for our state.

Sincerely,
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