Mainers could be voting on red flag referendum [Video]

The Maine Gun Safety Coalition is working to collect signatures to put an extreme risk protection order, or a red flag law, on the ballot for voters to decide on.The organization says the legislature hasn’t done enough to pass common-sense gun laws, so they are taking it to a citizens referendum. “The vast majority of Mainers want common sense gun measures in place to prevent gun violence, and the legislators have not yet caught up to where the population was,” Nacole Palmer, executive director of the Maine Gun Safety Coalition said.Maine currently has a yellow flag law that was strengthened in the wake of the Lewiston shooting to allow law enforcement officers to get a warrant signed by a judge in an unusual circumstance so that a person can be taken into protective custody. Palmer says that law doesn’t go far enough because families can’t trigger the law. “The extreme …