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Vermont Senate Poised for First Gun Rights Debate in Years
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously Friday to bar certain convicted criminals from possessing firearms and to report the names of some mentally ill people to a federal database.
Friday's vote set up an exceedingly rare floor debate next week over the supposed third rail of Vermont politics: the state's relatively permissive gun laws.
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While the committee abandoned that provision (UBC) weeks ago, it continued to debate two other components of S.31: a ban on certain convicted criminals possessing firearms and new federal reporting requirements. As the committee neared a deadline to take action Friday afternoon, it opted to include both measures in a new committee-authored bill.
That was enough for gun-control activists to celebrate.
"This is a historic victory, because this is a gun violence prevention bill that's going forward despite the opposition of the gun lobby," Gun Sense Vermont cofounder Ann Braden said after the vote. "This issue has been untouchable for years and now it's on the table."
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Friday's vote set up an exceedingly rare floor debate next week over the supposed third rail of Vermont politics: the state's relatively permissive gun laws.
(snip)
While the committee abandoned that provision (UBC) weeks ago, it continued to debate two other components of S.31: a ban on certain convicted criminals possessing firearms and new federal reporting requirements. As the committee neared a deadline to take action Friday afternoon, it opted to include both measures in a new committee-authored bill.
That was enough for gun-control activists to celebrate.
"This is a historic victory, because this is a gun violence prevention bill that's going forward despite the opposition of the gun lobby," Gun Sense Vermont cofounder Ann Braden said after the vote. "This issue has been untouchable for years and now it's on the table."
more
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2015/03/14/vermont-senate-poised-for-first-gun-rights-debate-in-years
I don't understand why anyone would be opposed to universal background checks, unless they were in favor of letting people who would fail them still buy guns
This seems like a step in the right direction, though.
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Vermont Senate Poised for First Gun Rights Debate in Years (Original Post)
Electric Monk
Mar 2015
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flamin lib
(14,559 posts)1. This is virtually the same bill that was pronounced dead a week or so ago.
The bill restricts gun ownership to convicted felons and domestic abusers. The biggest change is that universal background checks are stripped from it. See, it is very important that wife beaters can replace the guns taken from them by buying from a private seller.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)2. I'd like to see them get rid of their insane concealed carry law
Gun toters from all over the country hold it up as a model.
sweetapogee
(1,175 posts)3. may I ask you
which Vermont law you are referring to?
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)4. concealed carry with no permit