Resolve, To Provide Assistance to Private Sellers of Firearms
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1138
Committee Amendment CA_A_H180 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "f{" to H.P. 782, L.D. 1138, "Resolve, To Provide 
Assistance to Private Sellers of Firearms" 
Amend the resolve by striking out everything after the title and before the summary 
and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. Department of Public Safety to assist private sellers of firearms. 
Resolved: That the Department of Public Safety shall assist private sellers of firearms 
by providing information about how to collect appropriate information about the 
purchasers of firearms and how to obtain criminal history record checks on those 
purchasers. The Department of Public Safety shall invite the United States Attorney for 
the District of Maine and the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine to collaborate in order to 
educate the public and private sellers and encourage access to the United States 
Department of Justice's Project Safe Neighborhoods website where private sellers can 
obtain a gun seller's tool kit. The Department of Public Safety shall invite the United 
States Attorney for the District of Maine and the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine 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. Once the list is compiled, the Department of Public Safety 
shall ask the United States Attorney for the District of Maine and the Sportsman's 
Alliance of Maine to maintain the list on their publicly accessible websites, including 
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 and the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine 
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to do the same; and be it further 
Sec. 2. Report. Resolved: That the Depaliment of Public Safety shall report its 
progress in working with the United States Attorney for the District of Maine and the 
Sportsman's Alliance of Maine to implement the proposal under section I, educate the 
public and recruit federally licensed firearms dealers who are willing to conduct 
background checks for private sellers and the number of checks that they conduct to the 
Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety by February 1,2010.' 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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SUMMARY 
This amendment 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 firearms 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 District of Maine and the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine to collaborate 
in order to educate the public and private sellers and encourage access to the United 
States Department of Justice's Project Safe Neighborhoods website where private sellers 
can obtain a gun seller's tool kit. The department shall also invite the United States 
Attorney for the District of Maine and the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine 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 
invite both the United States Attorney for the District of Maine and the Sportsman's 
Alliance of Maine to include the list on their existing websites 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 I, 20 10. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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Approved: 04/24/09 Mac:.. 
LD 1138 
LR 100(02) 
Resolve, To Provide Assistance to Private Sellers of Firearms 
Fiscal Note for BiD as Amended by Committee Amendment '1r 
Committee: Criminal Justice and PublicSafety 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - General Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Additional costs to the Department of Public Safety associated with assisting private sellers of fireanns can be 
absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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