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A special commission organized to investigate the response to the Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting last year is set to hear testimony from more police. Maine Gov. Janet Mills and state Attorney General Aaron Frey assembled the commission to review the events that led up to the shootings that killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Lewiston on Oct. 25. The commission has heard from officers with the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office and will hear from members of the Lewiston and Lisbon police departments on Thursday.

By GABRIEL HATHAWAY

The independent commission looking into the mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, heard from survivors of the massacre and family members of the people murdered on Thursday.

Maine's governor is also calling on the state legislature to regulate private gun sales and make the illegal sale of guns a felony.

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