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: Representative Joshua Morris | Current Status: REFERRED to the Committee on EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS

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: REFERRED to the Committee on JUDICIARY

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: REFERRED to the Committee on JUDICIARY

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