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LD 1022: Interview With Rep. Peter Johnson (www.gunownersofmaine.org) Rep. Peter Johnson of Greenville is the sponsor of LD 1022, "An Act To Improve Training Requirements for Obtaining a Concealed Handgun Permit". I asked Rep. Johnson if he'd talk with us about his bill, and he agreed. Here...

Concealed Carry, Training & LD 1022 (www.gunownersofmaine.org) Laws prohibiting concealed carry are meant “to prevent people from having at hand dangerous weapons of which the public is not aware”, or so courts have said. They date from a time when openly-carried weapons were neither unusual...

What's Behind Tim Marks' Concealed Carry Bills? Tim Marks is a member of the Maine House of Representatives from District 53, representing Alna, Dresden, Pittston and Wiscasset. He serves on the Joint Committee for Criminal Justice and Public Safety and the Joint Committee for Inland...

Will LD 380 Make Open Carry A Crime? (www.gunownersofmaine.org) On Christmas Eve of 2012, 10 days after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, Justin Dean, a 24-year-old student living in Portland, took a walk from the city’s West End to Back Cove, not unlike many Portland...

From Washington State, State v. Ibrahim: http://volokh.com/2011/10/27/second-amendment-equal-protection-clause-victory-for-legal-alien-gun-owners/

From North Carolina, Johnson v. State: http://volokh.com/2011/10/27/second-amendment-protects-felon-whose-convictions-were-30-years-ago/