Federal authorities say they are investigating a report about a bogus letter purportedly written by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to at least one Vermont gun store claiming the U.S. Government was temporarily suspending the Second Amendment right to have guns.
The apathy rate of Burlington voters is high, just like the city’s crime rate.
Bondi Beach mass shooting despite even tighter restrictions throws doubt on this idea.
The Founders knew exactly what “weapons of war” meant. They also knew that freedom without accountability is no freedom at all.
The action comes after Clark and attorneys general from 15 other jurisdictions sued the Trump Administration and gun component manufacturer Rare Breed Triggers over plans to return and distribute thousands of FRTs—devices the AG says increase a firearm’s rate of fire and have been linked to violent crimes and mass shootings.
In July 2024, the Northern District of Texas applied Cargill v. Garland to a device called a “forced-reset trigger” (FRT) and concluded that FRTs also cannot be classified as a “machinegun.”
Misch first came into the public eye for leaving critical and racist comments on social media to and about Rep. Kiah Morris (D-Bennington), a black woman married to a white man.
Dealing with repeat offenders and drug crime matters more than banning guns in bars, Scott said.
Brennan presented the flip-side of Vyhovsky’s public safety argument: that responsible people carrying guns makes them, and the community, safer.
Supporters say it’s needed to reduce the increase in homicides in downtown Burlington and elsewhere. Critics say it violates a landmark 1987 state law pre-empting municipal gun control.
So we determined it was worth a trip over to Parro’s to become a little more familiar with what we were talking about! Yesterday we had the opportunity to go up to Parro’s and shoot some gas operated firearms on their state of the art facility for REAL education.
In fact, the AR-15 (which stands for Armalite Rifle, not Assault Rifle as often assumed), is a gas-operated firearm.
Such laws are unconstitutional, they are against the public welfare, they are prejudicial and increase danger to the public – especially in “sensitive places” – by depriving those who are subject to sudden acts of evil from the basic right of self-defense.
The report also suggests that municipalities should have the option to opt out of the ban via a vote at their annual meeting.
Legislation recommended by Clark and the Commission, if introduced, would likely go to the House Judiciary or Senate Judiciary committees.
The program would provide criminal and civil immunity from liability to participating dealers for any harm resulting from the dealer’s acceptance, storage, return, or refusal to return the firearm.
Learn the four things that must be true to legally justify the use of deadly force.
18 AGs to go after firearms industry for gun violence, opponents call it ‘fear mongering’
Typically, election years trigger a spike in gun purchases due to concerns over potential restrictions, but that’s not the case this time.
Williams told Vermont News First on Tuesday it was a simple mishap with his paperwork.
If the city voters approve this initiative in March, Vermont’s new ‘purple’ legislature, with more Republican representation in both the House and Senate, will ultimately decide along with the governor if this will become law.
“I don’t think anybody needs automatic weapons,” Rodgers said.
It seems the ATF intends to confuse the public and exercise increasingly arbitrary power to terrorize and prosecute American gun owners. Abolish the ATF.
Suppressors have been illegal for about 100 years. Until now.
“A person shall not knowingly possess a firearm at a polling place or on the walks leading to a building in which a polling place is located on an election day,” the new law says.
AGs claim Glock had knowledge its guns could be adapted to become “machine guns.”
Our organization and its membership have opposed UBCs specifically because it is a firearm registration scheme.
Lott noted the stricter gun laws are not the reason for Canada’s lower crime rates, contrary to the assumption of Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky.
If the FBI’s and FinCEN’s collusion with banks is any indication, the Left plan to “extinguish all bigoted beliefs” involves extinguishing one constitutionally guaranteed freedom at a time.
A ‘ghost gun’ and juvenile crime bill appealing to both gun controllers and law ‘n order conservatives will be reviewed in Senate Judiciary Thursday.
In return for a waiver of the 72-hour waiting period, voluntary gun license applicants would be required to provide detailed information about themselves and their family members.
More gun control is the right response to increase in violent crime, the leader of the Vermont Senate told a Burlington forum last night.
“The Supreme Court made it clear that governments may not impose arbitrary and pointless restrictions like Vermont’s waiting period and its ban on commonly-owned, standard-capacity magazines. These restrictions unconstitutionally infringe on Vermonters’ fundamental right to self-defense and must be struck down.”
Most of the recent shootings in Burlington happened away from bars. But the Mayor of Burlington has issued another call for banning firearms possession in bars and “other sensitive spaces.”
The two juveniles who stole Joshua Kruml’s gun did not break in but were “just visiting,” Fair Haven police said.
The red flag law allows a judge to temporarily remove a gun from a person considered dangerous. It hasn’t reduced homicides – and if we’re honest, that was never the intent.
Two juveniles stole his gun. The theft was reported. Now he’s looking at prison time for leaving the gun on a shelf in his house.
A Rutland gun shop has donated $2000 the an unprecedented effort to challenge Vermont gun control laws.
“As long as we allow these weapons to circulate in mass numbers with virtually no regulation, these catastrophes will continue,” Weinberger said.
Vermont’s lieutenant governor this week attended a ‘gun violence prevention policy summit’ sponsored by the Democratic Governor’s Association in Washington, D.C.
The public looks to law enforcement for its safety. Well, that safety net has been torn apart. What is worse is that no one has the courage to fix it.
A recent federal court decision overturning California’s ammunition magazine ban doesn’t overturn a similar Vermont law – at least not yet.
In one short video, Second Amendment news blogger Liberty Doll has succinctly nailed the Daniel Banyai story – both the complex historical perspective, and the latest information on a judge’s warrant for his arrest.
The Vermont Legislature this year passed a gun control law with a waiting period both Gov. Scott and gun rights advocates believe is unconstitutional.
Democrats have once again passed a law that encourages everyone to go out and buy a gun immediately – before you can’t.
House and Senate have agreed on H.230, this session’s signature gun control bill. If vetoed by Gov. Scott, it faces a likely override vote.
Vermont is a gun registration-free state – but that would change if a bill introduced yesterday becomes law.
This session’s gun control bill has passed the Senate and now returns to the House for reconciliation.
Firearms purchase waiting periods don’t reduce suicides, but they do put people in danger and threaten to end gun shows
The Supreme Court specifically prohibits requiring locks on guns stored at home – one of the provisions in a bill on the House floor today.
Recognizing the impossibility of passing gun control legislation, President Joe Biden is taking executive action instead – and will outline just what he plans in a speech today.
An appeal to recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions has led to striking a controversial proposed Senate ban on under-21 possession of semi-auto firearms.
The U.S. attorney for Vermont is giving out free gun locks as part of a new gun safety campaign.
“Shooting ranges will close if S.57 becomes law,” club president Bob Otty said.
Gun rights advocates raised concerns over the constitutionality of the bill following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June which expanded the right of law-abiding gun owners to possess guns outside the home.
In Kentucky, the ratio of firearm background checks to people was almost 1:1 in 2022. Vermont, not so much – about one in 13.
The session is just a week old, and already – as he promised last year – Sen. Phil Baruth has put his name on two gun control bills.
“Repealing the pre-emption law is absolutely on the GunSense legislative agenda,” Casey told VDC.
Another deep-blue state now requires new gun owners to undergo training and pass stringent background checks. What will Vermont do?
A Milton man is the winner of a 9 MM door prize from a pro-Second Amendment candidate meet-and-greet in Williston.
Gun sales are down this year in Vermont, although not as steeply as the rest of the country.
Vermont Fish & Wildlife offers hunting instructor training at a Waterbury gun shop.
The life of Second Amendment advocate Evan Hughes will be remembered in Barre this Sunday.
The National Rifle Association’s PAC has given A’s to some Vermont Republican candidates, and less-flattering marks to others.
The sights and smells came flooding back and the happy people and their families all seemed suspended in my mind in a soon-to-be tragic tableau.
In response to recent mass shootings, legislators in New York and in several other states have turned their attention to a new target: civilian body armor.
It’s not often Vermont gets mentioned in “Armed Citizen”, a regular feature in the NRA mag America’s First Freedom.
Body armor is like a radar detector because it gives crooks an unfair advantage over cops, Sen. Phil Baruth says.
Persistence paid off for a pair of pro-2A Vermont lawmakers this year, the NRA reports.
The Vermont House yesterday refused to vote on an amendment to allow noise suppressors for hunting, and instead sent the whole bill to the pro-gun control House Judiciary Committee.
They’re not really ‘silencers,’ but noise suppressors can save the hearing of people exposed to loud firearms, say both Republican and Democratic supporters of a bill before the House today.
In less than a week, the Vermont Legislature passed a gun control bill to replace S30. Will it too face a veto?
For the first time ever, Vermont law would allow the government to seize a citizen’s guns without notification. The bill passed the Senate and goes to the House floor tomorrow.
A ‘compromise’ bill to the vetoed S30 was approved by Senate Judiciary today. It creates a seven-day waiting period, allows gun seizure without due process, and lets out-of-staters use high-capacity mags.
Vermont firearms purchases last year dropped about 10% below the all-time high of 2020.
Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed S30 because it takes the firearms purchase waiting period out of the federal government’s hands, where it belongs.
Rep. Pat Brennan says the Legislature wouldn’t bend on the 30 day waiting period it added to S30, which he calls a “gun grab.”
Gov. Phil Scott today signaled he would likely veto S30, which restricts gun rights.
S30, restricting the carrying and purchasing of firearms, passed the Vermont House today. A veto is possible.
S30, which the NRA says infringes on constitutional rights to buy and carry firearms, has cleared a Vermont House committee and now goes to the full House.
Another gun rights supporter will testify against a bill making it a crime to carry a gun at a hospital.
State laws against criminal trespass already allow hospitals to keep guns off the premises, House Judiciary was told Thursday.
Two VT pro-2A groups say the New York City firearms ordinance doesn’t recognize the right to self-defense by carrying firearms. Unconstitutional, much?
The feds want to restrict hunting with dogs in the big Silvio Conte wildlife area in Eastern Vermont. A Northeast Kingdom state senator is asking our federal delegation to let the hunting continue.
An anti-gun professor is giving a speech Sept. 21 in Springfield entitled “Do We Still Need an Armed Citizenry?” Guess what her answer is.
At a special meeting of Groton voters last Wednesday, a proposed Second Amendment Sanctuary resolution failed narrowly by a 39-41 vote.
If approved, the proposal would bar the town of Groton from using funds to store firearms that have been confiscated or are being stored “for the purpose of enforcing any other law that unconstitutionally infringes upon the right of the people of Groton, Vermont to keep and bear arms.”
During the first six months of 2021, federal background checks for Vermont firearms purchases were down – but only slightly – from last year’s record high numbers.
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for a Rhode Island man after police responding to a domestic disturbance took guns from his home without a warrant — a violation of the man’s Fourth Amendment rights, the justices ruled.
Changes to state law about justifiable homicide signed into law May 13 by Gov. Phil Scott could remove legal protections from citizens defending some attack victims, critics say – including Gov. Scott himself.
We fought hard against both bills in their original committees to almost no avail and will continue to do so with what will likely amount to the same results. The unfortunate reality is, that these bills are seen by most legislators as favorable measures of public protection, regardless of any and all reason, logic, or emotional argument to the contrary.
A bill that would ban almost all trapping in Vermont (H.172) was reviewed this week by the Vermont House Natural Resources, Fish & Wildlife Committee.
The proposed Mendon firearms discharge ordinance has been tabled while town officials gather more information and evaluate citizen comments from a March 15 hearing, Town Administrator Sara Tully told Vermont Daily today.
There will be a Second Amendment Picnic at the Slate Ridge firearms facility on Briar Hill Road in West Pawlet on April 17.
Those voting YES believe H133 and court-ordered gun seizure is a reasonable protection for victims of domestic abuse. Those voting NO believe this is a violation of the Second Amendment the US and Article 16 of the Vermont Constitutions, by taking away rights to bear arms without due process of law, noting that the subject of the order is not required to be informed of the hearing and the order can be granted without the defendant having an opportunity to be present, present evidence or have any representation.
The ordinance would ban air guns, which offer an opportunity for marksmanship training without the noise of a firearm.
Second Amendment Rights activist Jim Sexton of Essex Junction today presented a written petition to Washington County Sheriff Sam Hill to remove from the State House and charge 16 Vermont senators who – Sexton says – “have committed perjury by violating their oaths of office” by supporting gun control legislation.
A new version of the S30, Chittenden Sen. Phil Baruth’s proposed ban on carrying firearms in many public places, strikes all the previous wording and establishes a single new criminal punishment for carrying a gun inside a hospital. It also includes a study to determine if the policy prohibiting firearms at the Statehouse is sufficient or if it needs to be “strengthened” through legislation.
Police have a tool they can use to immediately correct the problem of a person carrying a firearm into a prohibited place; it allows them to remove that person; it allows them to cite or arrest and at that point they can confiscate weapons. That’s current law today. To quote the lead sponsor one more time: “… if in fact there are other laws that do what S.30 purports to do, then I would say it is a strong argument for not passing it.”
A bill sponsored by Sen. Philip Baruth (D-Chittenden) to prohibit carrying guns in some public places lacks support in the Senate Judiciary Committee, committee member Sen. Joe Benning (R-Caledonia) confirmed yesterday.
