Opponents of expanding background checks for gun sales often raise the fear that it would allow the government to create a national gun registry — a database of gun transactions. In fact, federal law already bans the creation of such a registry. And the reality of how gun sales records are accessed turns out to [...]

Members of the Coalition for a Safer Maine and Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence gathered yesterday evening for an Emergency Strategy Session on our successful bid for gun control in Maine. Participants conference called or attended in person to collect news and advice for our approach as Universal Background Checks prepares to hit the floor. [...]

Sentinal Article Federal law requires an instant background check for the buyer in every gun sale. That is, it’s required unless the buyer doesn’t want one. It is mandatory in a licensed gun dealer’s shop, but Internet sales and private sales at gun shows or in homes, motel rooms and parking lots are not covered. [...]

We have reached a critical moment in the battle for gun reform and need you to join us for an emergency meeting this Thursday. Former Speaker of the House, Mike Saxl, a lobbyist for MCAHV and the Coalition for a Safer Maine, will be providing aconfidential update on the behind-the-scenes workings at the State House and the status of our core issues. [...]

It was “just one of those crazy accidents,” in the words of the local coroner: A 5-year-old in Cumberland County, Ky., accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister yesterday with a .22-caliber rifle. But unlike many suchtragedies, the rifle in this case actually belonged to the child, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. The gun, which he received as a [...]

To submit questions to the town hall forum on Thursday, May 3, please follow this link.  Coalition co-chair, Larry Gilbert and MCAHV board members, Chief Sauschuck, Liza Walworth, and Lois Reckitt will be attending this evening’s forum. Chief Sauschuck will serve on the panel with Senator Anne Haskell.  “CBS 13 News is hosting a local [...]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Stephen King and his wife have made a donation to a Maine group advocating for stricter gun control laws. King says the gift was “five figures” but doesn’t want to say more about it because “charity’s supposed to be a private thing.” The Coalition for a Safer Maine says King is a gun owner and a defender of the [...]

  Jon Stewart looks at the failure of background check legislation in the US Senate by having Jon Oliver look at effective gun control in Australia. Of course, the gun advocate says Australia isn’t the “real world” and is akin to “going to Planet X.”  Of course, Oliver got the gun nut to shut up [...]

For the full NY TIMES article… Written by Gabby Giffords, Arizona SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those [...]