Posted on 02/15/2025 4:46:58 PM PST by CFW
A federal judge has blocked a Maine law requiring a three-day waiting period to buy a firearm in response to a legal challenge filed by gun dealers who argue the restrictions are unconstitutional.
The ruling Thursday by U.S. District Judge Lance Walker sided with the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, Gun Owners of Maine and several gun sellers who filed a lawsuit last year alleging the law requiring people to wait 72 hours to acquire a firearm — even if they pass a required criminal background check.
Walker's ruling temporarily blocks the law while he considers the legal challenge.
"Citizens wishing to purchase a firearm are dispossessed of one for 72 hours exclusively by operation of the act’s requirement that everyone be subjected to a 'cooling off' period, even those who have passed an instant background check at the FD's (firearms dealer’s) counter," Walker wrote in the 17-page ruling. "That is indiscriminate dispossession, plain and simple.”
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
“Gun Rights Advocates Notch Big Win in Maine”
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/02/14/gun-rights-advocates-notch-big-win-in-maine-n1227680
Trump has a lot on his plate. And he has to juggle many priorities. But I think there is a decent chance that gun control will end during his term. It’s so clearly unconstitutional.
Hope someone is going to challenge Colorados recent laws as well
A very nice win with this court ruling.
Let the dominoes start falling... :)
Trump judge.
States like NY don’t care whether it’s illegal or not- they enstate unconstitutional laws and evidently no one challenges them on it
Yes!!!!!!!!!!
Trump judge.
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yes, and?
“,,States like NY don’t care whether it’s illegal or not- they enstate unconstitutional laws and evidently no one challenges them on it...”
One can use the Constituional right as wellas legitimate federal transportation laws as a defense, but with their gun-hating AGs and judges, it’s just a waste of time. Their lawfare approach is a big part of the punishment for just owning a gun. That’s one reason why I’d NEVER stop to assist any LEO in any of those states regardless of the situation they were in. The other reason is I don’t want to go to jail for simply owning a firearm.
New Mexico’s third generation career politician Gov. Michele Lujan-Grisham has imposed a 1 week waiting period for all firearm sales in the state. How long will it stand? Until it’s found to be illegal like her edict banning legal carry in public places she decided on. Little dictator.
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Winning. Screw Maine. Another commie ass Afrikan colony.
Clearly unconstitutional. Bought a shotgun last Fall. Live in rural Maine. Pain in the posterior to have to go back to the local gun shop to consummate the sale. Friggin liberal politicians...Democrats and “independents “
“States like NY don’t care whether it’s illegal or not- they enstate unconstitutional laws and evidently no one challenges them on it”
It’s almost as if they were having an insurrection.
Maine 2nd Congressional District....80% of the land mass of the state....went for Trump by wide margins in 2016, 2020 and 2024, giving Trump an electoral vote each time.
Here is a Mom that knows the meaning of gun control. Have one in your hand when needed!
She defended her children while holding the 5 month old on her hip. This could have ended a lot differently.
I don’t want to hear “she needs more range time”. She was holding an infant and it was she and her two children against three thugs.
“Armed mom shot and wounded as she wounds home invaders”
“DECATUR — An armed Decatur mom with a baby on her hip was shot and wounded as she defended her family by opening fire on home invaders, driving them off and wounding one of them, police report.
The 22-year-old woman suffered a gunshot wound to her left forearm and another gunshot wound to her right hip, according to a sworn affidavit from the Decatur Police Department.
“This is the hip where (she) was holding her infant daughter,” said Detective James Knierim, who signed the affidavit. He said the children, a 5-month-old baby and a 2-year-old infant, both survived the ordeal unscathed while their home erupted in a blaze of gunfire around them.”
It sure is- they passed their unconstitutional “Safe act” in the middle of the night lrscticslly, while noone was the wiser, claiming that there was an “imminent need” beczuse the “nation is in a crisis due to guns”. The nra sorta tried to fight em, but I don’t think they got real,serious about it. Carl higgbie of newsmax is suing ny beczuse he can’t csrry across the state line from Connecticut where he lives. Hopeful,y he prevails and ny laws will be deemed unconstitutional and illegal. But I doubt there is much ope for that state as they even recently passed laws making bb guns the same as firearms, with the same regulations- thats how stinking insane that state is
It’s a dang shame that a state is so tyranical and violates the inalienable od given rights of individuals that a person would fear for their own freedom IF they stopped and helped a cop in trouble agaisnt an armed perpetrator. But that is what states like ny do, punish the law abiding citizens whi,e coddling the actusl criminals.
At least someone understands the second amendment.
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