Why would Maine gun shops sell to someone from a state that does not have reciprocity?
I was in a gun store here in NH some time back and someone from CT wanted to buy a gun and they would not sell it to her. CT, MA and a few other states were on their list of won’t sell it to.
The criminals are probably buying them from private parties, or even more likely, from fellow criminals. Or they are trading drugs for guns.
In 2016, Michael Bloomturd funded a ballot initiative here in Maine to ban the private sale of firearms.
The police chiefs of Maine appeared in TV commercials, in uniform, supporting the ban.
The Maine Sheriffs appeared in TV commercials, in uniform, expressing their opposition to the ban of private sales.
The sheriffs won....the people of Maine voted in November, 2016 to keep the private sales of firearms.