By Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News Staff
Maine courts have found a way to track whether police are taking away guns from people who can’t have them. But so far, police have only followed the new procedure 26 percent of the time.
How police handle firearm relinquishments has come under scrutiny after the Lewiston mass shooting in which a man who displayed warning signs of mental illness killed 18 people.
Fri, 04/30/2021 - 6:30pm
The following is a transcript of a radio address presented by Governor Janet Mills:
Some years ago there was a young woman who dated a man who was handsome, charming, and she was in love with him. The man was also an alcoholic, as it turns out, and one night in a drunken rage, he held a gun to that woman’s head. The gun did not go off, thankfully. She was alone in a strange city and had no place to go. She packed her bags and left that place and never turned back.
Sound familiar?