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Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills said Monday she will allow one of a final pair of gun safety bills — a waiting period for gun purchases — to become law without her signature in the wake of the Lewiston mass shooting. The governor announced that she would let a 10-day period pass without signing or vetoing the 72-hour waiting period bill, allowing it to go into effect without action. The governor also said Monday she has vetoed a ban on bump stocks that would have applied to a device that can be added to a semiautomatic rifle to allow it to fire like a machine gun.

A local museum is preserving artifacts related to from memorial sites in Lewiston, that are now on display

Gov. Janet Mills on Friday signed into law a suite of gun safety legislation approved by lawmakers after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, expanding...

Six weeks before Robert Card killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, a fellow reservist told supervisors he feared Card was about to conduct a mass shooting.

Six months after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, the state is still investigating the details of what happened leading up to the day a gunman opened fire at two locations in Lewiston killing 18 people. “Six months ago, the tightly woven fabric of Maine was torn apart by a horrific attack that robbed us of the […] The post Maine marks six month anniversary of Lewiston shooting appeared first on Maine Morning Star.