Maine Governor’s Office Flagged Gun Rights Group’s Online Post to State Police

Back in December, during an interview with a local NBC affiliate about blunders by official in the lead-up to the Lewiston mass shooting, Maine Gov. Janet Mills left the door open to tighter gun restrictions, including a ban on so-called “assault weapons.” That segment was picked up and publicized by The Maine Wire, a conservative-leaning news site. That outlet’s post, in turn, drew a pungent comment from the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), a pugnacious self-defense rights group that pulls no punches when it comes to defending individual liberty. So, of course the governor’s office went crying to the cops.

via reason.com

This is par for the course for anti-gun politicians. Expect the Trump assassination attempt to prompt calls for more gun regulation and calls to restrict “disinformation” by those who say no way. The First and Second Amendments have always gone together. People who don’t like one tend to also dislike the other.