Maine sportsmen had better fall in line with the Democratic Party’s upcoming push for gun control if they want to continue to enjoy sport shooting and hunting in Maine.
That’s the message Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Allagash) shared with Democratic Party activists at a private event on Saturday hosted by Food and Medicine, according to an audio recording of his remarks obtained by the Maine Wire.
“We need to do more, make sure that people like Robert Card doesn’t get, uh, you know, guns,” Jackson said at a meeting hosted by Food and Medicine, the dark money nonprofit that is listed as Jackson’s employer on his financial disclosures.
“I mean, if you’re a gun advocate, if you’re someone, uh, comes from a hunting, you know, tradition, I would say that the best way to make sure that you continue to do what you you love and, uh, have done all your life, is to make sure that Robert Card doesn’t get, that people like Robert Card, doesn’t have weapons,” Jackson said.
The Senate President didn’t elaborate on why Mainers might not get to continue to hunt or use firearms if they failed to fall in line with the Democratic Party’s proposed restrictions on gun ownership. But the implication seems clear: support the coming push for gun control or risk harsher restrictions on gun ownership and gun use in the future.
Jackson, who has historically defended the Second Amendment and opposed left-wing gun control policies, said he would be changing his previous position on measures like Red Flag Laws, a shift he attributed to the Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston.
Robert R. Card, Jr., the deceased Lewiston shooter, was known to multiple law enforcement agencies and the U.S. Army as violent, unstable, and armed — yet for reasons that remain unclear, Maine’s “Yellow Flag” gun control law was never used to block his access to firearms.
That law would have allowed for Card to be involuntary committed and deprived of firearms had law enforcement invoked it; however, multiple law enforcement officers failed to utilize the gun control law despite ample evidence that Card was dangerous and armed.
Despite the failure to enforce Maine’s existing gun control law, Jackson insisted Saturday that new gun control laws are necessary to reduce gun violence and to ensure that gun owners can continue to enjoy hunting and using firearms.
The specific language of the gun control proposals Jackson will now support have not been made public.
However, one major gun control provision with significant backing from legislative Democrats is a proposal from Rep. Rebecca Millett (D-Cape Elizabeth) that would change product liability laws to allow for civil lawsuits against gun sellers and gun manufacturers if their products are used in the commission of certain crimes.
Jackson isn’t the only Second Congressional District Democrat who has flip flopped on the Second Amendment following the Lewiston shooting.
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, who represents the district in Congress, has come out in favor of a ban on “assault rifles” despite owning one himself.
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23 Jan 2024
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The ants go marching 1 by 1! Hurray! Hurray! The ants go marching 1 by 1! Hurray!
The little one stops to take yours guns! Hurray Hurray!
Robert Card is THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING that anti-gun politicians and national groups(mostly made up of abortion loving middle age white women) were looking for in the state with the fewest gun crimes and murders in the whole United States. Robert Card crapped in his pants…so now EVERYONE must wear a diaper.
“-that people like Robert Card, doesn’t have weapons,” Can’t decide illiterate, drunk or stupid. I swear he’s the Fedderman of Maine but to be sure let’s ask an expert on all three subjects, someone who lives with these conditions, connor,,, what say you? Congrats on your enlistment, by that I mean draft. Go fight bravely for those who have replaced you.
Hmmmm. I’d give them all my firearms but unfortunately they’ve been lost in a boating accident. Oh well, sorry.
F.U. Troy. Why don’t you enforce your dictates. Oh, that’s right you are a $#!+ bag coward that hire others to do your dirty work.
For everyone’s sake just enforce the existing laws. They restrict enough and would have prevented many of the atrocities with firearms that have been committed in the past 20 years.
So we have a shooter who could have been stopped if existing gun laws had been used, but they weren’t so we need more restrictive gun laws. Ok got it.
Jackson is just another worthless dem A$$ who should have stayed up in the county where he could do no harm to Maine. Card would not have killed anyone if Maine law enforcement had done their job. But their laziness has given these opportunistic thugs a reason to try again to disarm their political enemies. They all stink.
If guns were “miles claimed but not driven”, Troy would be all for’em.
“Top Maine Democrat to Hunters: Support Gun Control If You Want to Keep Hunting”
GO PH-UK YOURSELF!!!!
Shall Not Comply.
I do not own a gun, never have. BUT I do not object to my neighbors, friends, relatives owning one or more guns as I feel safer as they have guns to defend me from the bad folks.
Conner, I would suggest that you read the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, paying very close attention to the Consent By The Governed language. We The Peoples have the right to dissolve, and replace government that no longer works for us.
“The Senate President didn’t elaborate on why Mainers might not get to continue to hunt or use firearms if they failed to fall in line with the Democratic Party’s proposed restrictions on gun ownership. But the implication seems clear: support the coming push for gun control or risk harsher restrictions on gun ownership and gun use in the future.” …IOW, this is a THREAT–and no matter what the voters of Maine want, they have no say in the matter. WOW. Is this Jackson’s oblique way of admitting that the votes aren’t counted accurately in Maine, & that the computers just flip enough votes electronically to whatever TPTB want in order to get what TPTB want? Is that how this bonehead got into the Senate in the first place?
Just another puppet for The Money.
You people can’t enforce existing laws, go away and don’t come back….go lay down, go on git!
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ. ….nuff said
This man has No Right TO TAKE AWAY MY RIGHT TO OWN A FIREARM! ITS NOT THE FIREARM ITS THE PERSON WHO IS MENTALLY ILL and their negligence of not dealing with it . The government opened the doors of BMHI in the late 70s and pushed the mentality ill out on the streets and this is the results ! They fill up the jails and streets with people who should be hospitalized in mental institutions!
It seems our state Capitol is one big mental instution . And corn hole Connor is leading the insane asylum.
How are people still going to be able to hunt if firearms manufacturers end up out of business because of the mountain of frivolous lawsuits that were enabled by Millet’s proposed legislation?
Folks – everything with governments is a pre or post OP ….
Russia gate, George Floyd, Parkland High School, Robert Card… they do not let a crisis go to waste to push their agenda.
Top Maine Patriots message to tyrant communist democrats: start supporting 2A and the constitution if you wanna keep breathing…
Odds are if they did more ; this travesty certainly would have never happened at all = clear signs,signals of a’ problem,but instead: Troy Jackson wants to threaten hunters,and if he was wise regarding LAW – In which he obviously is not – Well, He would realize that hunting is a privilege,but the second Amendment is a RIGHT! You don’t punish Law abiding citizens.