This week, gun restriction advocates suffered a defeat in the Democratic controlled state of Vermont. Both houses of the legislature have been planning to introduce new gun control bills. The Senate’s proposal was to go further than the House until this week when Democrats withdrew a ban on assault weapons.
The State House’s legislation, H. 124, cosponsored by 11 Democrats and one Independent, seeks to ban high-capacity magazines, require background checks, and require a firearm safety course for all those who carry a concealed weapon.
Vermont has the oldest unrestricted concealed carry laws in the nation; similar laws have recently been adopted in Wyoming, Alaska and Arizona.
The author of the House bill, Rep. Linda Waite-Simpson (D-Essex Junction) does give a little to gun advocates by removing the state’s ban on silencers. The bill also has a provision that addresses mental health.
The Senate bill that was withdrawn by Senate Majority Leader Philip Baruth (D- Burlington) would have made it a crime to manufacture, posses or transfer semi-automatic weapons and large capacity ammunitions.
But even Baruth could not find the support in a Democratic controlled State Senate, where Republicans make up only 23 percent of the body.
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Gotta love Vermont! If they weren't trapped up there in Yankeeland, they'd make some pretty fine Confederates!
ReplyDeleteOf course, they'd all die under Chinese water torture before they'd admit it, but they would, and we all know it.
they'd make some pretty fine Confederates!
DeleteOf course, they'd all die under Chinese water torture before they'd admit it, but they would, and we all know it.
Heh!:)