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LR 1354
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§1, ¶D, as amended by PL 1993, c. 524, §§6
and 7, is further amended by amending subparagraph (5), division
(s) to read:

 
(s) Have you been adjudicated within the past 5
years as having committed the juvenile crime
defined in Title 15, section 3103, subsection 1,
paragraph B of possession of a useable amount of
marijuana, as provided in Title 22, section 2383?;
and

 
Sec. 2. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§1, ¶E, as amended by PL 1993, c. 524, §8
and PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. K, §82 and affected by §83, is further
amended by amending subparagraph (5) to read:

 
(5) Demonstrates to the issuing authority a knowledge
of handgun safety. The applicant may fully satisfy
this requirement by submitting to the issuing
authority, through documentation in accordance with
this subparagraph, proof that the applicant has within
5 years prior to the date of application completed a
course that included handgun safety offered by or under
the supervision of a federal, state, county or
municipal law enforcement agency or a firearms
instructor certified by a private firearms association
recognized as knowledgeable in matters of firearms
safety by the issuing authority or by the state in
which the course was taken. A course completion
certificate or other document, or a photocopy, is
sufficient if it recites or otherwise demonstrates that
the course meets all of the requirements of this
subparagraph.

 
As an alternative way of fully satisfying this
requirement, an applicant may personally demonstrate
knowledge of handgun safety to an issuing authority, if
the issuing authority is willing to evaluate an
applicant's personal demonstration of such knowledge.
The issuing authority is not required to offer this 2nd
option.

 
The demonstration of knowledge of handgun safety to the
issuing authority may not be required of any applicant
who holds a valid State state permit to carry a
concealed firearm as of April 15, 1990 or of any
applicant who was or is in any of the Armed Forces of
the United States and has received at least basic
firearms training.; and


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