Long known for comparatively
lenient gun laws and a
demonstrably low homicide rate
(as compared Chicago?) attributable to firearm abuse, moves are nonetheless underway by extreme anti-gun elements to undermine Vermont’s state preemption for firearms laws and enact draconian new edicts. Challenging them, a statewide gun rights group on Thursday demanded documents related to official proceedings and correspondences by filing of a Freedom of Information Act request.
“Our statutory informational request was submitted to the City of Burlington to gather information in the process of challenging the Burlington attack on the state preemption law, commonly known as the Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights,” Vermont Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs President Clint Gray explained to Gun Rights Examiner.
“The Charter Change Committee, which was asked to draft a gun control resolution earlier this year, will present the [Burlington] council with five gun control measures on Oct. 21,” VTDigger reported on September 10. “The measures would ban assault weapons, restrict those with domestic violence convictions from obtaining a firearm, require a permitting process for concealed weapons, ban firearms from establishments that serve alcohol, and require that firearms be kept ‘under lock and key,’ separate from another locked location where ammunition is kept.”
Standing in the way of that is a section of the state’s Title 24, which declares in part
“Except as otherwise provided by law, no town, city or incorporated village, by ordinance, resolution or other enactment, shall directly regulate hunting, fishing and trapping or the possession, ownership, transportation, transfer, sale, purchase, carrying, licensing or registration of traps, firearms, ammunition or components of firearms or ammunition.”
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