By joining our Show Up Network, we will keep you informed on gun safety issues and proposed legislation. SUN members and its partners successfully lobbied the Legislature to enact several pieces of legislation in the 2021-2022 session.
Thank you to everyone who watched, supported, donated, volunteered, spoke, and cheered along during our 22nd Annual Fitzgerald Awards Program last night. It was a tremendous success, and we cannot thank our supporters enough!
We are incredibly proud to partner with Humanium Metal for a new project in which unwanted firearms are removed from Maine police departments, destroyed, converted to usable material, and then fashioned into high end jewelry.
The Maine Senate voted 20-15 on Wednesday to advance legislation sponsored by Representative Vicki Doudera, D-Camden intended to protect Maine children from death and injury from loaded firearms. LD 759 would amend the child endangerment laws to include unauthorized access to firearms for children under 16.
Maine Gun Safety Coalition Executive Director Geoff Bickford spoke with News Center Maine/NBC 10 in Portland about Fort Fairfield’s declaration as a “second Amendment Sanctuary.'“ As Geoff notes, MGSC is "not presently concerned or worried about [these ordinances] because these things have no legal effect."
Maine Gun Safety Coalition Executive Director Geoff Bickford spoke with WABI CBS in Bangor about tips for firearm safe storage and how to avoid a repeat of the completely avoidable shooting of a 2 year old in Waterville earlier this month.
Maine needs a Child Access Prevention law now.
Thank you to everyone who watched the 21st Annual Fitzgerald Award program! We hope you found it inspiring as we begin our work again to pass commonsense gun safety legislation in the 130th Maine Legislature.
The Maine Gun Safety Coalition is extremely honored to have been featured atop Portland's iconic Time and Temperature Building yesterday. Thank you to Law Offices of Joe Bornstein who operate the sign for recognizing our work to keep Mainers safe from Gun Safety!
Today the Maine Gun Safety Coalition (MGSC), Maine’s longest standing and only state-based organization dedicated to protecting Mainers from gun violence, is proud to announce its recognition of 23 Safety Leaders running for House or Senate in Maine this November 3rd. The group includes three candidates for state senate and twenty candidates for state house. Nine of those recognized are incumbents.
Read the Maine Gun Safety Coalition’s statement in response to the Bangor Daily News Article about the surge in gun sales in Maine.
