I’m a Maine gun owner and I want a red flag law

By Christina Bobrow

Christina Bobrow lives in Farmington.

My dad, of blessed memory, taught me to shoot early.

Summers, out behind the house; winters, out my bedroom window up into the woods, paper targets nailed to a post. Both his love of precision shooting and the large collection of guns in the house led him to ensure that his only child was well-trained on firearms.

He instilled in me iron-clad safety rules: treat every gun as loaded, keep them locked when not in use, store ammunition separately and only ever point a gun down-range.

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