Yellow Flag/Red Flag?
What is the difference between a Red Flag law and Maine’s Yellow Flag law? We do the work for you.
MGSC Response to Lewiston Shootings
Message from the Board Chair: We all are heartbroken by the shootings in Lewiston.
Pediatricians Program Safe Storage Video
The Maine Gun Safety Coalition Foundation and Falmouth Maine Police Department developed this user/parent friendly safe storage video.
Response to Mass Shooting
Maine Gun Safety Coalition responds to first mass shooting in Maine.
Federal legislation does not go far enough
Federal law in response to the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde law is a significant step, but few states ban the purchase of long guns for the age group of the perpetrators. Maine is not one of them.
Sagadahoc Sheriff’s Office to host gun safety training in wake of 2021 shootings
MGSC Executive Director Geoff Bickford spoke with the Times Record about the gun safety training program being offered by the Sagadoahoc Sheriff's Office.
Insight: Guns in the COVID era: An expert discusses trends in gun sales and gun violence in pandemic America
Be sure to check out this excellent interview in the Portland Press Herald with Garen Wintemute, an emergency medicine physician at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center and director of the California Firearm Violence Research Center, discussing the relationship between the massive surge in gun sales during the peak of the Covid 19 pandemic and the subsequent spike in firearm-involved crimes.
MGSC Executive Director Geoff Bickford spoke with WMTW ABC Portland about Maine's well-deserved "F" rating for its gun safety laws from the Giffords Law Center
Maine Gun Safety Coalition Executive Director Geoff Bickford spoke with WMTW ABC Portland about Maine's well-deserved "F" rating for its gun safety laws (or lack thereof) from the Giffords Law Center. Although progress has been made with the founding of the legislature's Gun Safety Caucus and the enactment of a safe storage law last year, there is still much work to be done.
Maine Gun Safety Coalition Reacts To Report Of Surge In Gun Sales In Maine
Read the Maine Gun Safety Coalition’s statement in response to the Bangor Daily News Article about the surge in gun sales in Maine.