Committee votes down bill to allow 18-year-olds to carry concealed weapons without permits

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Source: Portland Press Herald

UGUSTA — Lawmakers disposed of two bills Friday that would have loosened Maine laws that allow an adult to carry a concealed handgun without a permit.

The bills offered by Sen. Eric Brakey, R-Auburn, would have allowed someone as young as 18 to carry a concealed pistol, and removed a provision in state law requiring those carrying a gun on their person or in their vehicle to disclose that in any encounter with law enforcement.

Brakey, the chief architect of a 2015 law that did away with Maine’s permit requirement for concealed weapons for adults 21 or older, pushed the two measures, saying that because 18-year-olds are allowed to openly carry firearms in Maine, they also should be permitted to carry concealed weapons.

He said the requirement for immediate disclosure to law enforcement is vague and could force people to incriminate themselves in violation of their constitutional rights.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Brakey must be a bright one

[Doreen]

2. OK, let me get this straight.

An 18 year old adult is not allowed to carry a concealed gun without a permit but anybody with a mental disorder dangerous or not can carry a gun?

[ailsagirl]

4. Yep

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I'm trying to think of a single 18 year old that I have ever known who I would

have trusted to walk around in public armed, whether open carry or concealed carry. I'm coming up blank.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Sounds like a recipe for killing of a lot of teens.

Carrying a gun AND not telling any cop that stops them???

I can just some kid reaching for his papers on a traffic stop and the cop seeing the gun in the glove box.

[cstanleytech]

6. I dont support concealed carry except for law enforcement but

I would not mind if they had removed the portion regarding someone having to reveal that they have a legally owned gun in their vehicle as to me it serves little purpose except to let law enforcement tack on additional criminal charges if someone is arrested not to mention revealing it could cause an officer to get a stick up their ass and needlessly escalate an incident.