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Moms Demand Action, a national gun safety advocacy group, is calling for universal background checks, waiting periods, a red flag law and bans on assault rifles and bump stocks.

The Legislature's Judiciary Committee holds a work session on a series of bills that include a proposal from Gov. Janet Mills to expand background checks and update the state's yellow flag law.

The three bills include renewed attempts to require 72-hour waiting periods on gun purchases and ban bump stocks or similar devices.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA -- Gov. Janet Mills declined to take a position Wednesday on a set of new gun-control and mental health proposals from Democratic lawmakers that go farther than her policy response to the Lewiston mass shooting.

Groups gathered in Nashville Tuesday in a rally urging Tennessee lawmakers to pass common sense gun laws during the state's legislative session.

Students protesting at the walkout voiced frustration with school officials for what they saw as an insufficient response to bullying, citing a perceived lack of meaningful action despite reporting instances of bullying.

 

"We want people to know," Bloomington Police Chief Jamal Simington said, "that we will come after you if you use a gun to take a life or to threaten someone."

John Kramer of Independence says one package took more than a month to arrive in Texas from Independence