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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.