Proposed Legislation Could Ban All Ammunition in Vermont!

NRA - ILA ^ | January 28, 2010 | NA

[neverdem]

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Proposed Legislation Could Ban All Ammunition in Vermont!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Please Contact Your State Legislators Today!

The House Fish, Wildlife & Water Resources Committee  is currently considering legislation (H. 484) which could potentially ban the sale and use of virtually all ammunition in Vermont. The bill would require the Secretary of Natural Resources to set up a program to identify and ban the distribution of certain toxic chemicals.  During questioning before the House committee regarding the potential impact of H. 484, Department of Environmental Conservation Deputy Commissioner Justin Johnson said that it was foreseeable that the enactment of this legislation could outlaw the ammunition you use for hunting, plinking, or self-defense.

Following Commissioner Johnson's testimony, proponent Charity Carbine of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG), testified and did not challenge the commissioner's assertion that H. 484 could result in the banning of ammunition.

Please call your state lawmakers TODAY and respectfully urge them to oppose H. 484!  Contact information for your legislators can be found by clicking here.

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Find this item at: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=5337

[neverdem]

These idiots need to be sued out of existence.

[bamahead]

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[gimme1ibertee]

Charity Carbine

That can't be her real name...the irony is thick as a brick,ain't it?

[11th Commandment]

The price of ammo just went up 100% in VT

[Boiling point]

Equal justice under the law, If it passes, then cops shouldn’t have it either.

[wolfman23601]

Vermont of all places? I know it is a liberal haven, but it is also a mountainous state where many people hunt to put food on the table. I can’t believe the people of the state would support this.

[YOUGOTIT]

The anti-American Nazi are at work as their Progressive scum do their thing.

[jmcenanly]

The previous attempt by the government to do this in Vermont met with stiff opposition. Let's hope they remember their history.

[wmileo]

It is easier for a pedophile to practice their behavior on the unsuspecting children than for a free normal person to exercise their constitutional rights. I thought that Vermont was a 2nd Amendment State.

Should have known that any state where the folks can vote for Bernie Sanders and Howard Dean would turn on the U.S. Constitution sooner or later.

[OldArmy52]

“Vermont of all places? I know it is a liberal haven, but it is also a mountainous state where many people hunt to put food on the table. I can’t believe the people of the state would support this.”

In Mao’s Communist China, only about 2 percent of the people were of the Communist Party. To enslave a Nation, it only takes a small minority. Look at the USA where a very tiny minority of the total population controls the news, the education system and now the Govt. In the case of the USA, the massively one-sided propaganda machine of the “one Party Press” probably is what really elected the extremist, friend of terrorists and criminals, “Big O”.

Without a balance in the schools and media, creating a brain-washed voting majority (aided by voter turnout among the dead, imaginary, non-citizens and felons) is regularly doable.

[Madame Dufarge]

Vermont has the least restrictive gun-control law. It recognizes the right of any Vermonter who has not otherwise been prohibited from owning a firearm to carry concealed weapons without a permit or license. Yet Vermont has one of the lowest crime rates in America, ranking 49 out of 50 in all crimes and 47th in murders.

Vermont gun control laws

[almost done by half]

The House Fish, Wildlife & Water Resources Committee

Sounds like these people need to be "exposed" to this environmental hazzard up close and personal! ;-)

[Lucky9teen]

Hence all the more reason for the 2nd Amendment/guns!! (IMO)

[Gay State Conservative]

Something tells me that the SCOTUS might want to weigh in on this.

[JimVT]

I don't know but I think the NRA is over-reacting to this proposal. Here's a link to the proposed regulation. VT

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/Bills/Intro/H-484.pdf

[Mariner]

Any such act would not withstand 2nd Amendment scrutiny.

[Still Thinking]

Any such act would not withstand 2nd Amendment scrutiny.

Unfortunately, the truth of that statement is strongly dependent upon who's doing the scrutinizing.

[muawiyah]

A little historic perspective on this. Vermont was set up as a buffer state between New York and New England. Consequently it failed to attract new settlers from the the incoming throngs in the 1800s and instead drew down on stray French Canadians.

For all practical purposes today's Vermont is a piece of Quebec.

Quebec has a large population little changed in its attitudes from its first big surge in the 1600s when it was the main piece of New France.

If we but look back to the Religious Wars (in France in the 1500s) between the deGuise faction and the Huguenots we see the "problem" with guns and ammo and why French Canada's core area, and their colony of Vermont, are so aghast at ordinary citizens having, keeping and using firearms.

As we all recall from our American History 101 course the Huguenots and de Guise (that is, Catholic) factions settled their violence by selecting a Huguenot who became a Catholic to become King of France.

However, the Catholics gave up their personal firearms to the state but the Protestants didn't. You see that reflected in the demand by the Huguenots in America that the Second Amendment (and other elements in the Bill of Rights) be added to the Constitution before they would vote for its adoption.

Quebec's attitude toward personal firearms is a late Medieval period piece of religious bigotry that should be ignored. Teams of NRA members should be allowed to go door to door in Vermont teaching the poor folks there the truth of why guns are good ~ in a federally subsidized program of course. We'd have DVDs and CDs at the ready and could instruct them on their own computers.

Sample products of cheap Chinese knockoff zip guns could be distributed to them, and citizens would report to the nearest armory for target practice once a week until they were comfortable.

There's really no sense tolerating this retarded idea from the Middle Ages that citizens can't have guns. Of course they can have guns; they should have guns; and if they don't have them they should be taught to get them and love them.

Any Vermonters who don't like the idea should return to Quebec where they belong.