Steve Mistler

The measure is response to the Lewiston shootings and would allow family members to petition courts to seize a dangerous person's guns without involvement of police or a mental health evaluation.

The vetoed bill would have barred a felony conviction if the third conviction was for property worth less than $500. But Mills said the proposal could make an uptick in retail thefts worse.

House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross says Rep. Mike Lemelin and Rep. Shelly Rudnicki will not be allowed to vote or speak until they issue a formal apology to their constituents and families of the victims of the Lewiston shooting.

The proposal was drafted in response to a prominent neo-Nazi group setting up a training facility in Penobscot County. It has since been abandoned but Democrats in the Legislature wanted to give law enforcement and prosecutors more tools to discourage future operations.

The governor's original bill left wage enforcement to the state labor department. The legislature amended it to allow farmworkers to sue their employers.

A close friend of the Lewiston mass shooter testified Thursday that he warned his Army Reserve commanders weeks before the incident because of the escalating, threatening behavior he had witnessed.

The governor's bill was a response to the Lewiston mass shootings and one that straddles the competing interests in Maine gun politics.

The governor says she was deeply conflicted about the three-day waiting period proposal and that the ban on so-called bump stocks was too broad.

The proposal was designed to match a federal rule banning devices that can allow semi-automatic firearms to fire almost as quickly as machine guns, but the governor argued that the definition in the bill were overly broad and could include devices used by hunters and in target shooting.

Gun safety advocates in Maine and across the country say that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision upholding a law designed to protect domestic