Maine passes 'red flag' law born out of the Lewiston shooting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The red flag law will skip two of those steps by letting family members go directly to a court to seek an order restricting a loved one's access to weapons.
53% : The main political group on the yes side raised $900,000, with $100,000 of that coming from the national gun control organization Giffords.
50% : Mainers voted Tuesday to create a "red flag" gun control law that came in response to the 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston.
40% : A commission that Mills formed to review the shooting found sheriff's deputies had enough probable cause to use the yellow flag law on Card instead of only performing welfare checks at his Bowdoin residence in the months before the shooting.
35% : Two committees on the no side raised just $130,000, relying late on digital ads that made general arguments against gun control.

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