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    STATE OF MAINE Orrice oF THE GoveRNoR 1 State House Station Aucusta, MAINE soot a 04333-0001 ‘April 29, 2024 ‘The 131s Legislature ofthe Ste of Maine Siate House Augusta, Maine Dear Honorable Members of te [31st Legislature: By the authority vested in me by Amicle IV, Part Tit, Section 2 ofthe Constitution ofthe State of Maine, Tam hereby vetoing LD, 2086, dn Act 10 Amend the Law Governing Disposition of Forfeited Firearms. L.D. 2086 as originally introduced addressed only the destruction of firearms forfeited after having been ‘sed inthe commission ofa rime. Current law requires the destruction of firearms used to commit an ‘unlawful homicide, and TD. 2986 would have amended the statute so any firearm required tobe foreited unde the Maine Criminal Code would aso be destroyed. Inthe Committe process, the bill was amended to address » very differen, and very complex, issue - banning the sale and possession of so-called conversion devices thit ae used o fur & Semi-automatic weapon into something that operates Uke & ‘machine gun, aswell as the weypons themselves, “The most welLknown exampleof these conversion devices is bump stock, although other devices are now being marketd that work differently but produce similar result to bump stocks. The Federal Bureau of| Alcohol, Tobacco and Frearms(ATF) has adopted a regulation banning bump stocks, and, arguably, certain ‘other conversion devices as wll. The future ofthat rgulation is unclear, as the U.S. Supreme Coutts ‘currently considering a challenge to it validity L.D. 2086, as amended, is apparently designed to act asa backstop in the event the ATF regulation is invalidated, bu it also uses mich broader language to define the machine guns, modified semi-automatic ‘weapons that operate like machine guns, an conversion devices that would be banned. That language is not only far more expansive than the Federal standard, bu it also differs from the statutes enacted inthe small numberof states that have attempted to address his sue in statute In an effort to expansively capture a category of prohibited devices ~ as opposed to specially identified

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