Maine Morning Star: Maine’s new red flag law takes effect

The red flag law passed by Maine voters in November takes effect Saturday, expanding the ways firearms can be temporarily confiscated from someone deemed a threat to themselves or others.

More than 62.5% of Mainers who voted in the November 2025 election backed the citizen initiative. Maine now joins twenty-one other states, including four in New England, that already have an extreme risk protection order that allows family or household members to directly petition a court to temporarily confiscate someone’s firearms.

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