Overview

• Maine's 'yellow flag' law, which restricts access to guns during a mental health crisis, has been invoked 13 times since the October 25 mass shooting in Lewiston.
• Four people whose guns were temporarily removed either mentioned the name of the Lewiston gunman, Robert Card, or threatened to become the 'next mass shooter'.
• The law was invoked five times on a single day last Friday.
• Since the law went into effect in July 2020, it has been used a total of 94 times.
• Police had received warnings about Card's mental health and access to weapons prior to the mass shooting.