There will be a Senate Public Hearing on the gun ban bill S.32
held at 6:30 P.M. on February 7th, at the Vermont State House.
It is more draconian that
what New York State just enacted.
The Vermont Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs has it position on
gun control legislation listed down below and position papers on
other matters listed on its web site www.vtfsc.org
VERMONT
FEDERATION of
SPORTSMEN'S CLUBS on
GUN LEGISLATION
The Vermont Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs is an organization
of clubs which has memberships with
ranks full of responsible citizens, who are parents and
grandparents. We take gun safety very seriously,
which is why the federation invests so much time in the training
of shooters/hunters, development of safe
ranges, training of course instructors, and the enactment
of appropriate laws and regulations.
What has become clear thus far in the recent heated public
discussion of recent violent crime is that
numerous factors that play a critical role in a complex
problem of preventing violent crime. That said,
it is the experience of the federation that those who commit
violent criminal acts do not obey laws.
Hence, the federation has long held that laws which restrict the
ownership of firearms by peaceful
citizens do not deter crime and only serve to slander the
vast majority of gun owners, who are by
far, responsible citizens. Such restrictive
laws hand advantage to the perpetrators of violent crime.
The federation does not engage in the legislative or regulatory
process in a hasty manner. We believe
that laws created in haste, particularly in the emotional
aftermath immediately following a traumatic event,
usually lack the sound public policy that society has a right to
demand in its laws. We continue to believe
in a deliberate legislative process.
Therefore, the federation will continue its long standing
practice of being willing to offer our knowledge and
decades of experience to our state in legislative discussions on
proposed legislation involving firearms.
