Gun procurement laws under scrutiny

Shootings prompt proposals for change
Gun laws in Maine and New Hampshire have come under scrutiny following a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine last October and a shooting at New Hampshire Hospital in November. Proposed changes in those states could have implications for the availability of mental health crisis services and access to firearms for people with mental illness.
New Hampshire House Bill 1711, or “Bradley’s Law” for Bradley Haas, the security officer shot and killed by a psychiatric patient at New Hampshire Hospital, would add certain mental health records to firearms background checks to stop people who are federally prohibited from buying guns from doing so.
In Maine, meanwhile, Governor Janet Mills used her State of the State ...