MAINE: Gov LePage signs concealed weapons bills

[GreenStormCloud]

http://www.sunjournal.com/state/story/1050413
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage has signed into law three bills expanding the rights of concealed weapons permit holders in Maine.

One of the bills, signed Tuesday, would bar businesses from prohibiting employees who have concealed firearms permits from keeping a firearm in their vehicle, as long as the vehicle is locked and the firearm is not visible.

Another bill allows a law enforcement officer from another state to carry a concealed firearm in Maine, provided the officer also has proper police identification.

The third bill will allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry weapons in state parks and historic sites. The bill was scaled back to eliminate other locations, including bars and the State House .

Bit by bit pro-RKBA bills are becoming law.

[onehandle]

1. Conservatives are AWESOME!

If only LePage could take down progressive art in all 50 states.

[ileus]

2. Let freedom ring....congrats to our maine residents.

[jpak]

21. Isn't that Hannity's song?

:shrug:

[aikoaiko]

24. Why is freedom your song, jpqk?

[jpak]

26. My freajsdedn song iass fghjkl;'

:rofl:

[aikoaiko]

27. Sorry for the typos. Glad they made you laugh.

You deserve a good laugh at my expense because you have provided so many for me.
;)

[DonP]

3. Gee, I wonder if any part time Maine residents will be upset by this?

Nah! Probably not.

It doesn't seem that there is any sort of organized gun control effort in the entire state. Just a handful of whiny malcontents that talk a lot and do nothing but tell every other state how they should live. Otherwise I'm sure an NRA backed initiative like this would never have passed.

How soon is the blood scheduled to be running in the streets of Rockport or York Harbor now?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. HIs words are unimportant, we do not hear him

[beevul]

12. Hahahaha.

"I think you're both going to be insufferably pleased with yourselves for at least a month ...sir."

:rofl:

[jpak]

17. Actually they have - local newspapers published editorials against this

and many many LTTE were opposed to it.

This is unusual for Maine - where many people hunt and own guns - and it is one more example of GOP/LePage over-reach that will reap the Democratic Whirlwind in 2011.

LePage and the GOP/NRA done kicked the hornet nest

They're toast

yup

[safeinOhio]

5. Sounds like a good law that

reasonable gun owners can support.

Must leave handguns in locked car at work.

Not allowed allowed in bars and other locations.

Good to see support for this in the gun room.

[GreenStormCloud]

6. About the same as Texas.

Perry just signed a guns-in-work-parking-lot bill with the same provisions. We can't carry in a place that gets 51%+ of its income from the sale of on premises consumed alcohol.
I don't know about out-of-state LEOs.

[Blown330]

7. Your reading comprehension is off again.

Doesn't say that employees must keep the gun locked in their car while at work, says employers can't prevent lawful employees from having them on company property as long as it's locked within their vehicle.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. LePage is just awesome.

Thank goodness the teabaggers in Maine elected him.

[DonP]

10. Can't happen - most people in Maine are against more guns

People that agree with you on these things have made it clear. Yup!

The citizens of Maine don't want more guns running around their state. In fact, we have been repeatedly assured that they want more and more gun control and that a repeal of the Maine CCW law is imminent.

So the idea that teabaggers run the state is just not possible.

But then again, only the GOP/NRA wants more guns. So I guess that the NRA/GOP is now running 49 states? They must be.

The acrobatics you have to go through to keep saying only the NRA/GOP wants guns for everyone and all "Real" Dems want more gun control, and then recognize that pretty much every state now has concealed carry now must be painful.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Thanks for the analysis,

whatever you it was you said.

[DonP]

13. It's not complicated

Either you actually believe that all these gun laws are being forced through by the NRA/GOP cabal in every state, as some here have posted repeatedly.

or...

There are actually a lot more Dems in state houses and legislatures supporting the gun rights agenda than some here want to admit.

You can't have it both ways, so which is it?

Does the NRA/GOP actually run 49 states? Or are there more Dems than ever supporting supporting these laws (as in Wisconsin for instance)?

I'm guessing the second alternative is a more accurate picture of the way things are actually going. Just seems a few folks don't want to accept that they are out of the mainstream on this issue and are stuck in the '90's and can't catch up.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Which has little to do with my post.

You brought up NRA/GOP stuff.

LePage is a bagger.

Thanks anyway.

[hack89]

25. Self delete

[DWC]

9. 49 down. 1 to go! n/t

[jpak]

15. Paul LePage (Uber-GOP-Moran) signs stupid gun bill passed by GOP/NRA assholes

something that Democrats cheer about

only in the Gungeon

yup

[friendly_iconoclast]

16. Richard Nixon (Uber-GOP-Moran) signs order establishing Environmental Proctection Agency.

When all else fails, go for the genetic fallacy, amirite?

[jpak]

18. Ed Muskie (D-Maine) author of NEPA that was passed by a Democratic Congress

GOP/NRA fail

yup

[gejohnston]

19. Tricky Dick still signed it.

[jpak]

20. Dems woulda over-ridden a veto

yup

[friendly_iconoclast]

22. Tsk, tsk. Now you're rewriting history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reorganization_Plan_No._3


Reorganization Plan No. 3
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Reorganization Plan No. 3 was an executive order submitted to the United States Congress on July 9, 1970 by President Richard Nixon establishing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and setting forth the components of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The order consolidated components from different Federal agencies to form the EPA, "a strong, independent agency" that would establish and enforce federal environmental protection laws.<1> Unlike other agencies such as OSHA, the EPA was not established by a single enabling act of Congress....

[spin]

23. Richard Nixon was NO friend of RKBA ...

As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, indexed Social Security for inflation, and created Supplemental Security Income. The number of pages added to the Federal Register each year doubled under Nixon. He advocated gun control, reduced speed limits, and eradicated the last remnants of the gold standard. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration and implemented the Philadelphia Plan, the first significant federal affirmative action program.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Richard_Nixon

In 1969, journalist William Safire asked Richard Nixon what he thought about gun control. "Guns are an abominatio­n," Nixon replied. According to Safire, Nixon went on to confess that, "Free from fear of gun owners' retaliatio­n at the polls, he favored making handguns illegal and requiring licenses for hunting rifles."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/luizgonsa/our-sick-society-normaliz_b_466265_40446770.html

Considering Nixon's history I am not surprised. He was, at the best, an asshole and would have love to disarm American citizens. He wanted to be the emperor.

[friendly_iconoclast]

28. I know about Nixon's crimes. I just wanted give an example for the "genetic fallacy" crowd

Apparently, the origin of something means damn near everything to them.

Unless, of course, said origin does something they approve of...