Gun purchase background check mandate question qualifies for Maine ballot
Source: Bangor Daily News
AUGUSTA, Maine — A question asking Maine voters to expand firearms background checks will appear on the November 2016 ballot.
The secretary of state’s office on Thursday announced that a coalition of groups seeking to place the citizens’ initiative on the ballot had submitted enough valid signatures to achieve that goal. State election officials validated 65,821 signatures — more than the 61,123 threshold required for ballot placement.
The petitions for An Act to Require Background Checks for Gun Sales had been in circulation since October 2015.
The background check question will join citizens’ initiatives seeking to implement ranked-choice voting in state elections and to raise the state minimum wage on the November ballot.
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Th LePew/TP anti-poor-people-increased-property-tax initiative FAILED - it will not be on the ballot this Nov.
What will be?
Recreational MJ
Increased minimum wage
Ranked choice voting
Background checks for Holy Gunz sales.
The Backlash is ON.
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Two accomplished and popular leaders of sportsmen have stepped up to support extension of background checks to all gun sales in Maine. Bucky Owen and Bill Vail, former Commissioners of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, will lead a group of sportsmen who support the initiative.
At a Tuesday morning press conference, representatives of the group, Maine Moms Demand Action, stood in front of boxes filled with petitions bearing the signatures of 85,436 citizens from all 503 Maine cities and towns, an impressive effort. One third of the signatures came from Maine’s Second Congressional District.
Jackie Sartoris, a MMDA volunteer, reported their polling found that 80 percent of Maine voters support the initiative. At the press conference, Bucky Owen noted that he’s been a lifelong hunter, angler, and gun owner. “We have a proud heritage of responsible gun ownership,” said Owen, a resident of Orono. “I believe strongly in the Second Amendment,” he said, “and in keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people. This initiative includes safeguards for us and will not lead to gun registration,” he concluded.
The Act to Require Criminal Background Checks for Gun Sales requires background checks for all gun sales, with some notable exceptions. For those of us who are sportsmen, the most important exceptions are these. No background checks are required “while hunting or trapping if such activity is legal in all places where the transferee possesses the firearm and the transferee holds any license or permit required for such activity.”
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