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By Guy Page
As of 7:50 AM this morning, the Vermont Legislature has yet to convene (10 AM today for both House and Senate), and already two firearms bills have been released for introduction into the Vermont House of Representatives.
Recently re-elected Rep. David Yacovone (D-Morristown) has sponsored H-20, voluntary surrender of firearms by people in crisis.
Here’s how it would work: Federally licensed firearms dealers in Vermont would have the option to choose to participate in a temporary firearms storage program for persons in crisis. A person experiencing a mental health or other relevant crisis could bring their firearms to a participating firearms dealer for temporary safekeeping.
The program would authorize participating dealers to temporarily store the person’s firearms until the person is no longer in crisis. 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, provided the dealer acts in good faith to follow program rules and procedures.
All gun theft grand larceny – H-19, sponsored by Rep. Anne Donahue (I-Northfield) and co-sponsored by Reps. Ken Goslant (R-Northfield) and Tom Burditt (R-West Rutland), would make stealing a firearm of any value an act of grand larceny.
Current law defines grand larceny, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $5000, as the theft of anything worth $900 or more. The bill adds ‘a firearm of any value’ to the list of grand larceny-eligible theft items.
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Categories: Gunrights
Any law that treats the theft of a firearm more seriously than it is now seems worthwhile, but it still depends on the prosecutor and judge to give it teeth.
Along those lines, how about treating the theft of an automobile, which can also be used to bring illicit or accidental harm to others seriously. Most cars on the road are worth tens of thousands and when STOLEN, are typically and ridiculously charged as “operating without owner’s consent”. I have never heard of anyone stealing a gun and being charged similarly. I wouldn’t be opposed to a mandatory prison term for stealing someone’s gun or car, no matter the dollar value.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Write it in as a mandatory minimum. How many current “the theft of anything worth $900 or more” violators get absolutely no jail time or fine as it is? Including that purple haired magistrate that was steeling thousands. Writing things on paper is a complete waste of time. The lawmakers need to do the judges job for them and write in strict mandatory minimums. They also need to change the prison system requirements so that people don’t just sit around getting a free vacation.
I’d be weary of the “voluntary surrender” of firearms. Often times this is used as leverage and blackmail against people who aren’t in “crisis”, and ripe for abuse against our veterans. It’s a trick, and it’s also a pointless waste of time.
Voluntary will become mandatory, if they can convince you to become stupid.
First of all, theft is theft. This goes for taking someone’s firearms from them in any form.
Oh the irony.
Beware of any firearm surrender program.
Do we really think those who are in a mental health crisis have the wherewithal to go through the emotional and bureaucratic rigamarole to submit their firearms to a dealer?
Will the next bill proposed offer these same folks the opportunity to bring their Atavan, Valium, and other pills to a pharmacy when they’re in the midst of a mental or emotional crisis?
Somehow, somewhere, the juxtaposition of personal responsibility and government overreach in this situation as the bill is proposed smells very fishy.
I was wondering which gun shops would want someone with mental issues bringing their firearm to them to surrender…
The contents of the liquor cabinet to liquor stores? Cars to car dealerships? Razor blades to the drug store? Rope to hardware stores?
No, it’s our guns they want.
As unwitting as Rep. Yacovone might be in his complicity with nefarious outcomes by proposing this bill, abrogation and usurpation of our personal responsibility and the Second Amendment is always the endgame of the Leftist, Marxist, Socialist ideology, and specifically as it relates to firearms. The less power we the people have, the more the state will take.
This is just another 2A Ponzi Scheme, you don’t think this is a citizen’s safety concern, really do you? Or that some scum bag that steals a firearm will be fined, and you think that will mean anything, did I mention scum bag ………… !!
Leftists don’t care about you, they only care about their agenda, and yes anyway to remove your personal property known as a firearm, like that’s the only dangerous tool people use or steal.
Wake up people