Maine Shooting Gun Laws
A customer sights in a long gun while shopping at the Kittery Trading Post, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Kittery, Maine. Maine gun retailers are now requiring a three-day wait period for purchases under a new law that was among several gun safety bills adopted after the state's deadliest mass shooting. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
A customer sights in a long gun while shopping at the Kittery Trading Post, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Kittery, Maine. Maine gun retailers are now requiring a three-day wait period for purchases under a new law that was among several gun safety bills adopted after the state's deadliest mass shooting. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Federal judge will not reinstate Maine gun waiting period during appeal
By Kaitlyn Budoin, Maine Public
A federal judge has denied Attorney General Aaron Frey’s request to reinstate Maine’s 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases while the case is appealed.
U.S. District Judge Lance Walker suspended the waiting period and last month sided with gun owners’ rights advocates who challenged the constitutionality of the law.
Frey has appealed the case to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston and had asked the court to reinstate the waiting period.
This article appears through a media partnership with Maine Public.
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