Just one month ago, authorities raided two houses, one in Oxford County and the other in Androscoggin County. They found piles of cocaine, piles of cash – and 129 guns.
The homeowner wasn’t just a drug dealer. He was an arms trader. Drug dealers from New York and Massachusetts are happy to drive to Maine for guns. They can’t get them at home because New York and Massachusetts have universal background check laws. So, they come to Maine and its gun sale loopholes. They bring us drugs; they take home murder weapons.
Thanks to our gun sale loopholes, Maine is arming the drug trade at home and beyond. One dealer alone had 129 guns for sale just last month.
What more proof do we need that it’s time to close our gun sale loopholes? What more proof do we need that it’s time to pass universal background checks?
L.D. 999 would do just that. Let legislators, and the governor, know that its time has come.
Betsey Remage-Healey
Peaks Island
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