Bill to allow guns in cars on school grounds is unanimously rejected by Maine House

[jpak]

Source: Portland Press Herald

AUGUSTA – Legislation that would have allowed firearms onto school grounds in Maine, provided they were locked in an occupied vehicle and unloaded, was unanimously rejected by the Maine House on Tuesday.

The bill, offered by Rep. John Martin, D-Eagle Lake, was introduced prior to a school shooting in Parkland, Florida that claimed 17 lives, and was originally meant to allow parents who hunt to be able to pick up or drop off their children at school without having to remove their hunting weapons from their vehicles.

But Martin, in the wake of the Parkland tragedy, asked that the bill be rejected, saying the measure was being politicized and the timing for relaxing gun laws on school grounds was not right.

The measure would have allowed the owner of a firearm to bring the weapon on to school grounds provided it was locked in a gun rack or case and was unloaded, while the firearm’s owner remained in the vehicle with the weapon.

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[braddy]

1. When I was in high school in Houston I just kept my rifle in the trunk and in elementary school my

show and tell item once was the 16 inch bayonet for my German WWII rifle, in elementary most of us boys also has pocket knives on us at all times.

[jpak]

2. Today you go to jail

and rightly so

[braddy]

4. Rifles used to be allowed at school and in the gun clubs, I didn't keep my rifle a secret, just as

elementary school when I was in second grade or so was OK with my bayonet or the children's pocket knives.

Something broke the families and our communities and the schools.

[BigmanPigman]

3. And this is a good thing? How?