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"Maine’s PFAS law is more workable for businesses, and importantly, protects Mainers, our state’s environment and Maine’s economic future."

The outdated federal Institute for Mental Diseases exclusion law, created in 1965, is, by itself, a national security crisis; it harms Americans by denying federal funds for vital mental health services.

It appears Maine’s legislative session will conclude without any floor debate or votes on perhaps the most effective gun safety reform, a proposed red flag law. Democrats, who hold the majority in both the Maine Senate and House of Representatives, passed a slate of bills aimed to address gun violence after the state’s deadliest mass […] The post Maine missed its chance to pass smarter, simpler gun policy appeared first on Maine Morning Star.

But the full Legislature never took up a proposal for a red flag law that would give families, in addition to law enforcement, the ability to restrict a person's access to weapons without a mental health evaluation.