More than 85 percent of all firearm deaths in 2020 in the state of Maine were suicides, according to a report submitted by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2020, 154 people were killed with firearms in Maine: 132 died by suicide; 19 were shot by someone else; and three were shot accidentally. An additional 39 people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and survived, per the report.
Prior to the new annual report, there had not been a mechanism for gathering comprehensive data on firearm injuries and deaths readily available to the public. State Rep. Lori Gramlich (D-13th District ) fronted a bill in 2021 requiring the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to coo...
