I'm thinking about moving to Maine. What are the guns laws like?

Is there no movement at all for gun control?

Really gets the noggin joggin

I'm sure there is somewhere, but not being from Maine I never hear anything about it. To other New Englanders Maine sort of has a wild redneck reputation. Not as refined as VT or NH.

Based. As long as they stay that way I'll be going back someday to buy a tract in Penobscot County so that I can build a cabin and retreat to it, never to be seen again.

>living in Lewiston
Shiggy diggy

They're the Arkansas of NE.

>Vermont
>Refined
Fuck you, being full of urbanites with no respect for the local culture isn't refining anything

Ok but what if i wanted to move to Maine from California.

Literally anything but New York is an improvement

>ok but what
>but

why but? till now this thread is nothing but praise for maine, are you slow or something?

You might get tired of six feet of snow by the time winter ends, if you're anything like the other CA transplants I know.

Really actuates the cashews

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>Texan here, I find most californians to be fleeing the lefty areas.
Lucky you. Most of the California transplants that come to CO are blue-pilled as fuck and have totally changed the dynamics of this state. I've met a few cool ones on campus that were fleeing socialism, but they are the minority.

Maine is good, but cost of living is expensive, and there's no jobs.

Pouring on the ol neurons

therecan'tpossiblybeaconnection

Thats because colorado is a liberal state and they go there for more of the same.
Texas is a red state, people flee to here because red.

>Thats because colorado is a liberal state
It didn't used to be. CO used to have a nice libertarian streak, but that is just about gone now.

>and they go there for more of the same.
I feel like most of them come here for the sole purpose of putting pics of "le 14er hikes" to their instagram. Bleh

Fuck off, we’re full. Go ruin Mass some more, flatlander. Only come here if you vote red.

One of my Maine buddies told me something accidentally quite racist a couple years ago
>People in Maine have really high opinions of black people because they don’t know many.
Unless the demographics have changed very recently, I’m inclined to believe him. He calls it the Texas of the North.

you're not allowed to carry a long gun in the woods without a hunting license, there are no jobs, everyone is old, and teh women have no teeth.

no, it won't.

correct. also once it gets below 0 it stays that way until march.

taxes too. high taxes. if question 1 passes on the ballot, we'll have the highest taxes in the nation.

It is very much like texas and alaska in terms of identity, but just living in texas can make you a texan. in maine, you've got to go back generations to be called a native. everyone else is from away or a transplant.

>getting tired of 6 feet of snow by the time winter ends
Those are rookie numbers.
t. PAfag

NH and ME both have exelent gun laws. Constitutional carry, no magazine bans, essentially perfect laws. Only bad thing is that there are not a lot of places to shoot in southern NH, more in ME.

hope you like lyme disease.

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>no, it won't.
liveandworkinmaine.com/opportunity-maine/
maine.gov/revenue/faq/eotc_faq.html

Maine is so desperate for young people that they are willing to help pay student loan debts if you live and work there

WTF are you going to do in Maine? There's logging in the north and retail and education in the south. The rest of the place would be meth central if anyone knew how to make it.

The somalis are only in portland and the Lewiston/auburn area

We literally changed our constitution so that state gov cant even consider it.

Good thing I know how to make meth

Bayfag, ca looking to move somewhere a lot less dystopian. I just want to be somewhere white, somewhere I can buy guns without having to reference any list, and preferably somewhere that never gets above 75f. I was looking at Maine, west PA, or Michigan.

BASED MAINE

I loved it there. I'd move tomorrow if it wasn't Directly north of my least favorite states

T. Longhaul trucker

Oh wow, that's cool. Maybe I would consider moving out to Maine instead of Texas or Arizona, not to fond of dry desert environment.

DONT MOVE TO ARIZONA
it's the most boring shithole on the planet on top of being egregiously hot apart from winter months

BASED

I love Maine. If you are the anti social /out/ type its awesome. I'd describe it as very... Libertarian. I enjoy a state that recognizes my right to carry and smoke weed. Southern Maine blows donkey balls. Might as well live in Fucking MA

>Bayfag, ca
Please don't move to Maine. They don't care for your type. I know you want to move because California sucks, but youre infected and relocation will only spread the CAncer

>never gets above 75 degrees
Might want to skip out on West PA then, the summers here are hot and humid and the winters cold and frigid, and we are due for a particularly cold one this year. If you can handle that as well as the potential meeting of ticks and someone strung out on opioids it isnt too bad a place.

Lived in Maine for 17 years, moved up when I was a teenager from South Carolina. Being an army brat and growing up down south kind of made me a little out of place in the state but they're just as backwards redneck loving hillbilly culture as anywhere else.

Cost of living and energy is up there, but I bought my house about a year ago (31) and my first child is on the way (mid January) so I managed to carve out a piece for me and the wife.

Gun laws are very minimal, and the only grey area is where a hunting law that prevents heater hunters and concealed firearms kind of overlap. They don't want people riding around with a loaded rifle/shotgun and shooting from their car or off the side of the road so there is a law about keeping your guns unloaded and seperate but I've never once been pulled over for more than a busted taillight and I carry whenever I'm not working. Maine decided to not worry about permits some time ago but I got all the certificates I needed, lol.

As for the somalians, I live in Auburn which is the sister town to Lewiston AKA Somali Town so I'm in pretty close proximity but it's never been an issue besides witnessing their lazy and strange habits. When I was single and living in an apartment, I'd do my laundry at the local laundromat and seen some crazy shit they throw into washer machines. They'd roll up ten by twenty area rugs and jam them into the giant washers because they don't ever use vacuums or brooms yet they all got iPhones and get free college. If that sort of thing gets under your skin then you'd be pretty annoyed quite often but Maine seems to have always been a very generous welfare state since everywhere the folks running the state keep wanting to expand Medicare coverage.

Whitest state but also the oldest in terms of birth to death ratio. More people die or leave than are born here.

Western PA can get pretty hot during the summer, iirc the town I grew up in just got out of being in the 80'sF a couple weeks ago

>Whitest state but also the oldest in terms of birth to death ratio.
So it's a state full of MILFs?

I'm sick of the 85-105f for 4 months and 75+ for 9 months of the year. I want December to be cold.

I used to live in Phillips ME very nice rural town. Only problem with towns like those in Maine is if you don't already have a job lined up or are family members with someone in the town you'll never find work no matter how qualified but it was nice being able to plink in my back yard with out anyone bothering me. Stay away from Portland it's turned into a hipster hyper pc shithole and there's one city that's fully Somali refugees it's where 90% of the crime happens

PA is a little weird when it comes to climate, but generally speaking summers are hot with so much humidity sometimes it feels like you’re breathing through a sponge, and every other season ranges from cool to freezing your balls off.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. Depends on where you go. Leave Southern Maine, where the money and population largely is, and you'll find the most insanely hardiest old hags that refuse to die and lots of welfare queens.

Stay in Southern Maine and it's a mixed bag of obnoxious Massholes who have a house there, moon-bat hives, and rich MILFs who are extremely disconnected from the rest of the state, if not, the country.

When I use to work as a chauffeur I would end up visiting the real wealthy neighborhoods and had to get some bleached blonde sperm-catchers out on Cape Liz. Never seen their husbands before, they were always out of state, and these gorgeous ladies would get together and have a Girl's Only trip to some island down south. The kind of conversations they would have would make anyone's blood boil.

>you're not allowed to carry a long gun in the woods without a hunting license
That’s a lie.

What kind of conversations?

Any good stories from your time as a chauffeur?

Its not like it matters, I don't have the nerve to speak to women

Got some good stories, some bad, so I'll share a few!

So these women living by the ocean in Cape Elizabeth on a private street with multi-million dollar houses. They were the types who never understood things like 'poverty' or 'expense' because it seemed like they were never left wanting. One year I was taking them down to Logan Airport in Boston and they decided to talk politics because it was 2016 and they were all in for Hillary. One of the topics was about healthcare and insurance premiums and the queen bee says, "I don't get why people worry so much over their health insurance! I'm only paying 1,200 a month for my family plan so why is it so difficult for these people to get proper insurance?" at that time I was making roughly $22/hr as a professional driver and I couldn't afford health insurance with 20 grand of debt floating over my head because the year before my gallbladder failed and needed emergency surgery. Let's just say I almost twisted the leather off the steering wheel.

Since this is Jow Forums I'll relate another story closer to the subject on firearms since I've had the distinct pleasure of meeting Gabby Giffords on many occasions but the first meeting almost ended with me pissing off her husband, the astronaut.

First off, I only knew the name Mark Kelly plus 2 passengers. No where on my trip sheet and log did it say anything about VIPs or anything so when I picked them up it went from 'Oh hey, is that THE Mark-' and then his wife comes around the corner. They were stumping for a Democrat in the Western Prom, right on the heels of Sandy Hook so the big message was gun control and the bear hunting referendum. As a chauffeur I never talk to passengers unless spoken to, and if spoken to I never talked about sex, religion, or politics. Mr. Kelly, sitting shotgun, wanted to talk some politics..

Cont.

So he wants to ask the big question: How's Gov. LePage doing? This was when Chris Christi was becoming a thing and long before Trump, so only people in New England new how brash and straight forward LePage is. If he wasn't so polite, he'd tell people to fuck right off. I made it clear that by no means am I endorsing nor disparaging the man because I'm usually down the middle, sorta conservative kind of guy whose a registered Independent but I stay informed of the goings on in politics. I outlined a pretty good summary of the good and the bad, things he tries to take credit for and things he deserves praise because sometimes he says the things we all think. The instant I said something positive, Mr. Kelly pulled the old tried and true liberal method of debate: don't present facts and change your mind, go straight for the character assassination. He puffed up so quick and says, "WELL, ARE YOU AWARE THAT YOUR GOVERNOR HAS MET WITH THE HEADS OF THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD IN HIS OFFICE IN AUGUSTA?!"

I was taken aback by this, I wasn't ready for that sort of response since the man has been very civil to me and blessed me the gift of conversation since I'm often driving silently while the rich and famous pretend I'm not there. So my response was, "No disrespect, sir, but if that were true then the Bangor Daily would have that as front page news for a week." Which is true, the Bangor Daily has in the past intentionally misquoted the governor on recorded occasions. So that's how I almost lost a $300 dollar tip as I drove him, his wife, and his wife's handler around good ol' Portland and Kennebunkport.

I wouldn’t have the patience.

Any more?

How about a good one? So I had to pick up a guy out in Sanford from a lonely little airstrip. I was given one of those pseudonyms so I won't be standing out in public with a celebrity name in the open that'll attract attention. It was a very basic name and that gave me the clue, but otherwise didn't know who I was getting. private jet lands, the terminal let me bring the limo out on the strip so I could pull up along side in my sharp suit, gave that whole professional image and this really jacked guy steps off the plane with a smokin hot lady friend. I grab their bags, welcome them to Maine and asked how was their flight, and off to their drop off. I was booked to be with them for 12 hours for a drop-off and return back to the airstrip, and the address was deep in the mountains skirting NH so we had a pleasant ride out. Dude was wicked nice, looked like he worked out a ton, but was short. I'm 5'11 and he was shorter than me. I couldn't figure out who the woman was because they were chatty and familiar, could have been a girlfriend or his sister judging from their friendly banter with no hint to their relationship.

So I got them to their destination, dropped them off and said I'd return in awhile near their pick-up time and hung out in the woods for a bit. Came back and they weren't ready to go but were kind enough to give me a meal! I've had so many clients tell me to be someplace at a certain time and wait for them outside in -10 degree weather while they pre-game for two hours leaving me cold and hungry so I was happy to get something real to eat. I still hadn't figured out who this guy was and when I checked the pseudonym just to see if it was a real name it actually brought up some MMA fighters and such. Maybe he was one of those, I thought. So the client himself made me steak tips, gave me the plate, and let me hang out with him and his relatives he was visiting. It was quite nice!

Cont.

So for awhile he's dropping hints, and folks there were calling him by some nicknames so I have no earthly idea who he was. At one point he asks how the steak tips were and if they were 'rock star good'. I'm still in professional mode, smiling and replying "I think so, sir." because part of the gig is never acting star struck or bothering the client.

So the time came where they were ready to get back to the plan, we're a couple of hours over the trip limit but he didn't mind after I politely let him know he may be charged a little extra, and he tipped me generously so overall it was a very nice experience. As they get out, I wished them a safe trip and said they can leave the trash, I'll throw it away for them.

Off they go, I hit a gas station and do my usual inspection and clean up and that's when I found a cup he brought with him from the plane so many hours ago. It was a tour cup for a country music tour and on the side of it was a picture of Kenny Chesney. That's when I realized that not only did he looked ripped but he was awfully short in the picture..

Somehow, I spent the afternoon with Kenny Chesny and had no idea who the guy was. I realized that maybe in some sort of way I was either tormenting the guy or appeared to be very dense as to his identity but like I said, gotta act professional. Can't let celebrities phase you.

It's too bad I don't listen to country music.

>Maine?

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it IS meth central. the rest is heroin.

maine is lost. even the minorities can't survive.

Newcastle and Damariscotta are pretty big meth dens. Those postcard towns tourists love driving through have some shadowy places.

Native Vermonters seems more respectable. Driving all the way up through Vermont was friendly people in cute little houses, even in the middle of assfuck nowhere. Local deli in one town had a "bucks" and "does" whiteboard on the wall with names of people in town who'd shot something that season.

Driving through Maine was trailerparks and really sketchy looking people.

Do you ever talk in a posh English accent like you're an old timey butler?

Only if they called me Jeeves or Alfred. Otherwise I just used my southern gentleman accent since it's foreign enough to a lot of folks up here.

>not a lot of places to shoot in southern NH
I fuckin hurts.

dunno what you're fucking talking about. every other town has a gun club. they're never more than fifteen miles apart unless you're north of concord.
>manchester obviously
>chester
>merrimack
>raymond
>hooksett (skeet)
>auburn
>exeter duh
plenty more west and north towards keene, tilton etc.