Vermont Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, Inc.
Proudly Serving Vermont Since 1875
ATTENTION:
VERMONT SPORTSMEN & SPORTSWOMEN
Let's Tell Our Legislators:
NO NEW GUN CONTROL LAWS
Where: Vermont State House, Montpelier
When: Tuesday,
January 27th, 2:00PM
to 7:30PM
What: Vermont
Sportspersons Filling the
State House
Vermont's Gun
Control lobby is telling our legislators that the population of Vermont has
changed; that your rights and values are no longer relevant. They say that you are not willing to be
bothered to protect your rights, and that you will not oppose their
laundry-list of New York City-type of gun control. They say 2015 is the year for Vermont to
enact big city gun control restrictions and you will passively not o
Even though Vermont
has an existing law which states that no municipality can attempt to regulate
the "possession, ownership,
transportation, transfer, sale, purchase, carrying, licensing or registration
of traps, firearms, ammunition or components of firearms or ammunition" (V.S.A. Tile
24 §2295 - better known as the "Sportsmen's Bill of Rights"), last year the politicians of Burlington
acted in utter contempt of this law by moving forward to the State Legislature
several anti-firearm resolutions to change their Charter. If these Charter changes are passed this will
gravely impact ALL Vermont
Sportspersons because towns and cities across the state would then be empowered
to enact their own shooting, hunting and trapping bans, ending up with
state-wide patchwork of conflicting ordinances.
Beyond
that: There is now an anti-firearm group
in Vermont spending a lot of money for the most expensive lobbyists in the
state. This group claims to be a
"grass-roots" Vermont organization, but does not show the exact
source(s) of their funding.
We believe the following facts speak for
themselves:
·
At least 2 of the anti-firearm ordinances
proposed for Burlington have been ruled by courts as unconstitutional in other
states, the third is virtually unenforceable, and all are against existing
state law
·
Vermont is the safest state in the nation due to
Vermont having the lowest
violent crime rate per capita
·
Vermont is ranked forty-fifth
of the 50 states in guns trace backs performed by the BATFE
·
Criminals do not obey laws, criminals will
always be able to get firearms, and senseless restrictions on honest citizens
will most assuredly be appreciated by violent thugs and criminals
NO ONE CAN DO THIS FOR YOU - THIS ISSUE
EFFECTS US ALL
Wear Orange, Be Polite & Respectful, but let us FILL
OUR STATE HOUSE!
Mark Your
Calendars, Further Details Will Be Forthcoming
