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Maine Firearms History: From Muskets on the Frontier to Constitutional Carry

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Maine has one of the more interesting firearms histories in the country, and not for the reasons people usually argue about online. The state's relationship with guns predates the politics by about 400 years — and that context matters when you're trying to understand why constitutional carry passed there with broad support while the state still sends Democrats to the Senate. "Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned." That's Maine's Article I,...

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Maine Firearms History: From Muskets on the Frontier to Constitutional Carry

Maine is a state where firearms have been woven into everyday life since the first European settlements in the early 1600s. The relationship between Mainers and their guns is not primarily political — it is practical, rooted in a rural landscape wher

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