Vermont Under Threat

David Codrea at Guns Magazine has this exclusive article on how the anti-rights politicians are attempting to do away with state preemption in Vermont:

Back before a handful of other states adopted “Constitutional Carry” laws providing for permitless carrying of concealed firearms, the practice was called “Vermont Carry,” as the Green Mountain State stood alone throughout the 20th Century in not prohibiting it. Long known for lenient gun laws and low numbers of homicides, Vermont represented the perfect real-world test of economist John Lott’s “More Guns Less Crime” thesis.

Which made it a threat to the gun-grabbers…

Vermont had also enacted firearms preemption legislation, meaning laws were set by the state, prohibiting municipalities from establishing a “patchwork quilt” of conflicting ordinances that would make it practically impossible to “lawfully” possess a gun and comply with edicts across all jurisdictions. And so far, despite Vermont being a notoriously “progressive” state politically (“Independent” Senator Bernie Sanders openly identifies as a socialist), the 2-edged sword preemption can present has been blocked in the legislature: Several attempts at enacting “gun control” edicts in 2013 did not make it out of committee, and Governor Peter Shumlin even signed the Sportsmen’s Act, ensuring those bow hunting or dog training could also carry a handgun for self-protection provided they did not use it to harvest game.

Thwarted at the state level, anti-gun forces turned their focus on eviscerating state preemption, and the City of Burlington provided the perfect political environment. Overwhelmingly dominated by the left (the Council is comprised of two Independents, four Progressives, seven Democrats and one Republican, and the mayor is a Democrat), the Council’s Charter Change Committee, per the Vermont Journalism Trust’s VT Digger news website, proposed ordinances to “ban assault weapons, restrict those with domestic violence convictions from obtaining a firearm, require a permitting process for concealed weapons, ban firearms from establishments that serve alcohol, and require that firearms be kept ‘under lock and key,’ separate from another locked location where ammunition is kept.”

More Here at Guns Magazine