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Janet Mills has made no secret that she struggled ... and her decision to let it become law came as a surprise to some gun rights advocates. Emails and internal records obtained by the Portland ...
Janet Mills has voiced her support for the recommendations ... including expanding criminal background checks for private gun sales, creating more crisis centers, and hiring more state troopers.
Several dozens of supporters and opponents of the proposed "red flag" gun law laid out their arguments for a legislative ...
Maine currently has what is known as a yellow flag law, which was negotiated by Gov. Janet Mills, gun rights groups and gun safety groups.
The Democratic co-chairs of the Legislature's Judiciary Committee have argued that, despite a state law requiring a hearing, the best and most direct way to hear from the public is to allow the issue ...
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and the Democratic-led Maine Legislature pressed for a number of gun and mental health proposals after the Oct. 25 shooting that claimed 18 lives and injured another 13 ...
Rep. Sam Zager, D-Portland, the sponsor of the bill on ghost guns, ... A similar measure was passed by lawmakers but vetoed by Gov. Janet Mills last year.
But that proposal has drawn opposition, not only from Republicans and gun rights groups, but from Gov. Janet Mills, who worked with sportsmen to craft the state’s current yellow-flag law.
Gov. Janet Mills, the only person in Maine with the authority to remove a sheriff, ... “If that gun gets back out into the community and something happens, for me, ...
Janet Mills’s refusal to bow to President Trump ... as a young woman with an alcoholic boyfriend who once held a loaded gun to her head. (She promptly left him.) Raised in rural western Maine ...