Alert! Another NEW serious legislative weapon to outflank our Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights

                 Additional NEW Language in your Message to Legislators

 

If you think the Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights is not under attack, or is does impact your outdoor sporting/shooting rights

or there are threats to your range, look at what has been introduced in the Vermont State House: H.R.11.

 

H.R. 11 would allow municipal charter change bills, which could well seek exemptions to the Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights,

to avoid the committee process and go directly to the floor.  Charter change bills are assigned to the House Government Operations

Committee, which is where we have our best opportunity to challenge gun control aspects of charter change bills.

 

The committee process is a fundamental value of the Vermont Legislature.  To introduce legislation to allow charter change bills

to avoid this process an extreme departure from the basic manner in which the legislature has long operated.  But, if H.R. 11

were enacted it would  allow charter change bills to go right to the house floor, giving us little time or process with which to challenge

charter change attacks to our Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights:  http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2016/H.R.11

 

Is it mere coincidence that H.R. 11 is posted on the very same day as the Burlington Gun Control charter change bills are having

a hearing before the House Government Operations Committee? 

 

You need to contact your House of Representative member(s) by leaving them a message with the Sgt-At-Arms staff 

at 802-828-2228 to politely say "No New Gun Control Laws, No to H.R. 11, Protect our Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights"

If you are uncertain as to who is your Representative(s) in the Vermont House see:  http://legislature.vermont.gov/people/search/2016

or you can leave a message with Rep. Patrick Brennan the House Chairman of the Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus.

 

Regardless of whether you think your legislator is pro-gun or anti-gun, contact them.  Politicians common skill is being able to count

contacts by their voters and 2016 is an election year.

And we need those in the outdoors sports/shooting communities to VOTE!

 

VFSC Testimony and evidence from BTV Charter Change hearing at the State House

VFSC Testimony and evidence from BTV Charter Change hearing at the State House

Vermont Mandatory Gun Owner Insurance H.709 and Mandatory Registration bills H.775

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> Vermont gun rights advocates have been battling the Burlington Gun Control charter change bills
> that endanger our Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights, two more draconian gun control bills have
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> H.709    An act relating to homeowner's insurance and gun possession
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> H.775   An act relating to transfer and sale of firearms
> H.775 is an introduction of the same type of Mandatory Registration bill as S.31 that went nowhere
> last year after a massive gun owner turnout at the state house in early February 2015. 
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> You need to contact your House of Representative member(s) by leaving them a message with the Sgt-At-Arms staff 
> at 802-828-2228 to politely say "No New Gun Control Laws, Protect our Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights"
> If you are uncertain as to who is your Representative(s) in the Vermont House see:  http://legislature.vermont.gov/people/search/2016
> or you can leave a message with Rep. Patrick Brennan the House Chairman of the Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus.
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> Regardless of whether you think your legislature is pro-gun or anti-gun, contact them.  Politicians
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It happened in Montpelier last night. Why Burlington gun control ordinances must not pass.

Contact your legislators by leaving the polite message at the Sgt-at-Arms at 802-828-2228:

No New Gun Control Laws and Protect our Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights.

 

It happened last night in Montpelier!

Montpelier Police Department

January 27, 2016
Suspect Arrested During
Residential Home Invasion in Montpelier

On Wednesday January 27, 2016 at approximately 1:19 AM, the Montpelier Police Department received a call from 911 advising of a residential burglary in progress at 438 Gallison Hill Road in Montpelier, Vermont. While MPD dispatch stayed on the line with the female resident, her husband held the suspect at bay at gunpoint, preventing the intruder from coming up the stairs to where he, his wife and 5 year old child were. The homeowner, while warning the subject that he (the homeowner) had a gun, demanded that the suspect not come any closer and to get out of the house.

At one point, the suspect left the house, but as MPD officers arrived on scene at approximately 1:23 AM, the suspect ran back inside the residence. After several tense moments with the suspect ignoring the officers' commands, the MPD K-9 was sent into the residence. With the K-9 deployed, MPD officers were able to tackle and secure the suspect. The suspect apparently gained entry to the residence by smashing out the door window of the mudroom and came into the kitchen.

The suspect was identified as Jesse Fitzgerald (27) of Hyde Park, VT. The residents did not know Fitzgerald nor had they ever seen him before.

After arrest processing, Fitzgerald was transported to the Northeast Regional Correctional Facility in St. Johnsbury for lack of $5,000 bail. Fitzgerald is expected to be arraigned later today (01/27/2016) for Unlawful Trespass of an Occupied Residential Dwelling.

NRA-ILA: Anti-Gun Burlington Charter Change Bills to be Heard in Committee on Thursday

view the web version of this email Anti-Gun Burlington Charter Change Bills to be Heard in Committee on Thursday On Thursday, January 28, the House Government Operations Committee will hear a trio of gun control bills that will unduly restrict the ability of Vermonters to carry for self-defense.   The meeting is scheduled for Room 11 at the Statehouse from 9:00 a.m. until noon.  This dangerous legislation does much more than it purports to do.  These Burlington Charter change bills would strike a devastating blow to the state preemption statute and the Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights, allowing any town or municipality to pass its own gun control scheme regardless of state law.  This confusing patchwork of laws would be cumbersome and ripe for abuse as anti-gun local governments could easily circumvent the state Legislature. Despite these bad bills being rejected by the Legislature last year, Burlington public officials worked overtime to reintroduce the charter change bills in 2016 as House Bill 566, House Bill 567, and House Bill 568. Please contact your Representative and respectfully request him or her to vote against these bills.  Don't forget to remind them that Vermont's gun laws are working just fine as the state has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the country.  You can contact the Sergeant-of-Arms at (802) 828-2228 to leave a message for your lawmaker and request a call back.    FOLLOW NRA-ILA © 2015 National Rifle Association of America, Institute For Legislative Action. To contact NRA-ILA call 800-392-8683. Address: 11250 Waples Mill Road Fairfax, Virginia 22030. Thank you!

House Gov. Operations Committee schedules hearing on Burlington Gun Control Ordinances

 

A hearing before the House Government Operations Committee has been scheduled for Thursday, January 28.

 

Understand that this legislation is not about just guns in Burlington.  It is about Vermont municipalities killing our

Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights by exempting it into being meaningless.  It is about creating a forum for gun

control forums in municipalities all over Vermont.  It is about being able to ban/regulate all that is protected from

multiple municipal PC challenges to outdoors sports/shooting activities by creating a state-wide patchwork of

restrictive ordinances.  Our Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights (24 VSA Section 2295) went into effect in 1988

and has served our state well.  Read it here:  http://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/24/061/02295

 

You need to contact your House of Representative member(s) and leave them a message at the Sgt-At-Arms

staff at 802-828-2228 to politely say "No to BTV charter changes, Protect our Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights"

 

If you are uncertain as to who is your Representative(s) in the Vermont House see:  http://legislature.vermont.gov/people/search/2016

 

 

 

Calls needed to Vermont State House

> Please call the Sgt-At-Arms Office of the Vermont Legislature at 802-828-2228 and leave the message:
> "No New Gun Control and Protect OUR Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights"  for Senator John Rodgers
> and Rep. Patrick Brennan, two good guys, so they can carry our message to the rest of the legislature.
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> Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights:
> http://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/24/061/02295

President Obama's Gun Control Executive Order

 

                                                                      President Obama's Gun Control Executive Order

 

In a press conference President Obama announced a Gun Control Executive Order that will face immediate and serious legal challenge.

 

The Obama Administration made sure to include Social Security records for citizens who have another person assigned to manage their financial affairs.

This would be an increase of millions of new prohibited citizens for citizens who are not violent or dangerous.  

 

Obama's gun control agenda is pushing "smart guns" which will cost much more and function how reliabily?

 

If we had a president who wasn't threatening every aspect of legal gun rights would we have the huge demand for firearms that requires all of the

staffing and funding increases the president wants to the NICS background system?  If he wasn't planning flooding the system with useless

background checks on honest private citizens, would NICS staffing and expenses require more tax dollars?  Dollars that could be used for prosecuting

convicted violent felons in possession of a firearm, especially if used in a violent crime.  Focus on prosecuting violent criminals, not hassling honest citizens.

 

The list just goes on and on and to read the rest, click on the link below.

 https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/04/fact-sheet-new-executive-actions-reduce-gun-violence-and-make-our

The president's gun control Executive Order violates the due process required to amend a section of the Code of Federal Regulations.

It is a unilateral action by a president who has not been convince the Congress to move his gun control agenda, which is the wish list of control advocates.

 

His E.O. will be challenged.  If not a series of such gun control E.O.s would completely dismantle the Second Amendment and makes Congress obsolete.