On Tuesday, Maine voters approved the passage of a confiscatory red flag law for their state.

The Maine Morning Star reported that the gun control, Question 2 on their ballot, passed with 58.7 percent of the vote.

Maine Public Radio noted that the passage of the red flag law “marks a rare victory for gun control groups in a state where gun rights activists have long held supremacy over firearms policy by beating back previous referendums and holding sway in the Maine Legislature.”

The red flag ballot measure was opposed by gun rights groups and Maine’s Democrat Gov. Janet Mills.

Colorado has a red flag law, yet at least five people were shot, two of them fatally, at Halloween parties over the weekend.

California has had a red flag law since 2016, yet it led the nation in “active shooter incidents” in 2021 and 2023.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on X: @awrhawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at [email protected].