Maine voters on Tuesday approved a law creating a new path to temporarily take guns from dangerous people following a referendum campaign inspired by the deadliest mass shooting in state history. The ...

Loved ones and law enforcement agents filed 125 so-called "red flag law" petitions in 2025, a 32% increase over 2024.

As we mourn the dead and wounded at the school shooting at the church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, we must ask ourselves what could be done. For years, some answered nothing. Suddenly, everyone seems to ...

Maine voters on Tuesday approved a law creating a new path to temporarily take guns from dangerous people following a referendum campaign inspired by the deadliest mass shooting in state history. The ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Two years after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, Maine residents voted Tuesday to make it easier for family members to petition a court to restrict a potentially ...

Red flag laws can be an effective tool to prevent mass shootings and suicides by allowing for the temporary removal of guns from individuals who pose a serious risk to themselves or others.

Nicole Hockley, a mother who lost her son in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, 13 years ago — and is now the CEO of Sandy Hook Promise — says red flag laws can help ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) -Mainers will vote soon on whether or not to instate the red flag law in Question 2 on the ballot which reads as follows: Do you want to allow courts to temporarily prohibit ...

In response to the scourge of mass shootings that have helped define the 21st century in the United States, lawmakers in California passed a landmark red-flag law that would allow authorities to ...

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Eighteen bouquets line the front of Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston in October 2023 — one for each victim of that month's mass shooting. Maine voters on Tuesday approved a law creating a new ...