The new law requiring a 72-hour waiting period to buy a gun is now in effect. The law requires those who purchase a firearm to wait three days before they can take it home. The bill was passed in ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With eleventh hour guidance from the state, Maine gun retailers on Friday began requiring a three-day wait period for gun purchases under one of the new safety laws ...

Maine gun retailers are now requiring a three-day wait period for purchases under a new law that was ... be reached to trigger the waiting period. Critics of the law have vowed to sue.

The waiting period law went into effect without the signature of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills. It was one of a series of bills adopted after the mass killings at a bowling alley and a bar and grill ...