Resolve, To Provide Assistance to Private Sellers of Firearms
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1138
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: HASKELL, BRYANT, LAJOIE, LOVEJOY, SYKES, GERZOFSKY

Legislative Document 
No. 1138 
H.P.782 
House of Representatives, Match 23, 2009 
Resolve, To Provide Assistance to Private Sellers of Firearms 
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by Representative HASKELL of Portland. 
Cosponsored by Senator BRYANT of Oxford and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: BRYANT of Windham, LAJOIE of Lewiston, LOVEJOY of Portland, 
SYKES of Harrison, Senator: GERZOFSKY of Cumberland. 
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Sec. 1. Department of Public Safety to assist private sellers of firearms. 
Resolved: That the Department of Public Safety shall assist private sellers of firearnls 
by providing information about .how t9 collect appropriate infornlation about the 
purchasers of firearms and how.Jo obtain criminal history record checks on those 
purchasers. The Department of Public Safety shall invite the United States Attorney for 
the District of Maine to collaborate in order to educate and encourage access to the 
Project Safe Neighborhoods website where private s<::llers can obtain a gun seller's tool 
kit. The. Department of Public Safety shall invite the United States Attorney for the 
District of Maine to assist it in contacting Maine's federally licensed fireanns dealers and 
compiling a list of those dealers who are willing to perform criminal history record 
checks of buyers purchasing firearms from pI:ivate sellers. Once the list is compiled, the 
Department of Public Safety shall provide that list on its publicly accessible website, 
includirig information about the cost of the service to private sellers. The Department of 
Public Safety shall also publicize this information to educate the public and shall invite 
the United States Attorney for the District of Maine to do the same; and be it further 
Sec. 2. Report. Resolved: That the Department of Public Safety shall report its 
progress to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety by 
February 1, 2010. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve directs the Department of Public Safety to assist private sellers of 
firearms by providing information about how to collect appropriate information about the 
purchasers of firearni.s and how to obtain criminal history· record checks on those 
purchasers. In this . effort, the Department of Public Safety shall invite the United States 
Attorney for the DistrictotMaine to collaborate in order to educate and encourage access 
to the Project Safe Neighborhoods website where private sellers can obtain a gun seller's 
tool kit. The department shall also invite the United States Attorney to assist it in 
contacting Maine's federally licensed firearms dealers and compiling a list of those 
dealers who are willing to perform criminal history record checks of buyers purchasing 
firearms from private sellers. The department shall post that list on its website and shall 
publicize the information to educate the public. The department shall report its progress 
to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety by February 1, 
2010. 
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