Maine LD1378 establishes the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to prevent individuals from purchasing, possessing, or controlling dangerous weapons.
Maine LD1378, known as the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act, allows family or household members, law enforcement agencies, or officers to petition for an extreme risk protection order against individuals who pose a significant danger of causing physical injury to themselves or others through the use of dangerous weapons. The act permits courts to issue emergency extreme risk protection orders without prior notice to the respondent and mandates a hearing within a specified timeframe. Respondents must surrender all dangerous weapons to law enforcement upon issuance of the order.
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