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By Guy Page
Senate Pro Tem Phil Baruth (D-Chittenden Central), perhaps the most gun-control minded Senate leader in the history of Vermont’s upper chamber, successfully asked the Senate Rules Committee to waive crossover rules and introduced a sweeping gun control bill today.
S.329, “criminal procedures involving firearms,” was introduced today, Wednesday April 15. Baruth, who is not running for re-election, is the sole sponsor. The bill needed permission from Senate Rules because it was not introduced and voted out of its original committee by the mid-March Crossover deadline.
The bill would (1) provide that stealing a firearm of any value constitutes grand larceny; (2) increase the penalties for second or subsequent offenses of firearms possession by prohibited persons; (3) prohibit the possession of firearms by persons who have been found by a court to pose a danger of harm to themselves or others as the result of a mental illness; (4) prohibit the possession of machine guns; and (5) prohibit the possession of firearms on premises licensed to serve alcohol.
The bill resembles H.606, an omnibus bill that passed the House. It’s now in Senate Judiciary, of which Baruth is a member. Crucially, H.606 did not include the prohibition of firearms on premises licensed to serve alcohol (bars and restaurants).
A Burlington charter change advanced by Baruth to ban guns in alcohol-serving restaurants and bars passed the Senate last year and since has been hanging on the wall in the House Government Operations and Military Affairs Committee.
Members of the Senate Rules Committee are: Baruth, Chair; Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D-Chittenden South); Virginia “Ginny” Lyons (D-Chittenden South); Scott Beck (R-Caledonia), and Brian Collamore (R-Rutland).
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Categories: Gunrights, Legislation
Baruth, babe. Go back to NY if you want NY gun laws. Don’t NY/NJ/CT/MA our beautiful VT. I understand that you’re not used to guns in bars, but in the world we live in where police are typically minutes away when seconds count making a lawful, intelligent gun owner a criminal when a knucklehead off their meds decides to shoot up a bar is forest thru the trees mentality. Considering all the imports we have of late, it’s inevitable that we suffer some kind of event. I personally do not eat out late in the larger areas of VT but if I do I am of sound mind and do not wish to be dragged thru court for stupid gun laws “just cuz”. There’s been enough hurting of VT’s business environment in the last 20 years, if you keep heading down this road many will see you’re in support of the theft/drug trade mentality that ruins most of the more populace states. VT is a haven, stop poking the bear. Progression is a necessity but there will almost always be a “bad guy” until many other factors involved in society are groomed out. So, that said, stop trying to wing your dingy around the state house and start cracking down on criminals that are obviously violent and proving themselves outstanding members of society. I personally feel a armed society is a polite society. We all know at this point that an arm can be traced enough for prosecution of broken laws, it’s time to be firm on criminals and not restrictive on the “good guys”.
Let the system actually work and filter things out, there are ENOUGH laws on the books, you and your fellow dems need to let them be ENFORCED. If you just need to wing your dingy GTFO of VT if you don’t like it. KK duder?
This is just mindless legislation making for a feel good scenario. It’s crazy. Guess he wants out before taking a mental competence test. Where he lives is a dangerous area, more so than a bar. Wonder if he carries.
Baruth is the sound you make when you puke.