Representative Jared Golden, a three-term Democrat, defeated Austin Theriault, a former NASCAR driver, in one of a handful of ...

Gun rights advocacy groups in Maine are challenging the state's new 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchases.

Gun rights advocacy groups are challenging Maine’s 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases, arguing that it’s ...

It was less than a day after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, and one of Congress’s most ardent gun rights supporters said he’d now back a federal assault weapons ban. “The time has now ...

A coalition of gun rights groups is suing Maine over a law requiring a three-day waiting period to buy a firearm, arguing ...

Learn more. In the year since the Lewiston mass shooting, Maine’s yellow flag law has been invoked more than 400 times by police seeking to take weapons away from people they believe pose a ...

The laws allow families to go directly to a judge and request the removal of their family member's weapons if they believe they are harmful to themself or others.

Since the shooting, Maine has strengthened its ‘yellow flag’ law and made other changes to gun laws. But it did not ban ...

Austin Theriault, R-Fort Kent. Golden's change in position on assault weapons after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting last year may play a pivotal role in the outcome. Golden has represented Maine ...

Lawmakers passed the bill in response to the Lewiston mass shootings, and it took effect in August.