Recent content by LemmyCaution

The penalty is a misdemeanor- less than one year in prison and/or $500 fine for magazines, $1000 for bump stocks. But I'll add that the Vermont Department of Public Safety doesn't have nearly the budget of the Virginia Department of Liquor Control, and if they were found wasting resources on...

I don't believe this is quite accurate. There is no mandate to 'turn them in.' They are merely contraband in VT now. There is nothing stopping one from moving them out of state, or selling them out of state. One has until October 1, 2018 to effect this legally.

But this is true of all the original 13 states. Their state constitutions predated the US Constitution and the BOR. What likely drives Vermont's independent streak is the reason Vermont wasn't one of the original 13 states.

One things that's always struck me, however, is that the wording of the 2A that has perennially given people fits trying to interpret is that the Massachusetts state constitution, from its inception, has always treated the right to bear arms as tied to communal defense, rather than an individual...

Unless that abolitionist was John Brown, maybe… But when the Democrat legalizes suppressors for the first time since the Great Depression and the republican signs a UBC bill and standard capacity magazine ban, you pretty much know you're in Vermont. Sorry to be so déclassé as to ruin a good...

I don't consider six years to be 'many.' Do you? Jim Douglas left office in January 2011. Phil Scott was sworn in January 2017. Also, those six years? Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, had an A+ rating from the NRA. He signed into law the bill decriminalizing suppressors. Let's keep the tribal horse...

I note with interest that there appears to be an interesting problem with the UBC language in S.55- The bill states: § 4019(c)(3) "A licensed dealer may charge a reasonable fee to facilitate the transfer of a firearm between a proposed transferor and a proposed transferee pursuant to this...

Vermont is the only for real constitutional carry state, in that Vermont's constitution is the judicially reinforced guarantee that the RKBA shall not be infringed. All other states that don't require a permit do so only at a legislative level that can be revoked at the whim of some other...

But that convenience can come at the expense of Cooper's Rule 2. In seeking to comply with Cooper's Rule 4, it's better to have a separate optic, which is why I bought the Vortex monocular. I didn't feel good trying to identify what I hoped was a deer moving in the woods with the muzzle coaxial...

I'm quite fond of my Vortex Solo R/T, even though I still have stereo vision. It's quicker than binoculars, and I never felt that stereo added much to binoculars, anyway. The ranging reticle is nice for hunting, as well.

For the win. Thanks, Deanimator.

The 'Due Process' being proposed is a hearing before the FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court). Do a quick Google search on the FISC's record, and you'll quickly see that it's a rubber stamp joke of a Judicial check on Executive power. Hearings before the FISC are not adversarial. The...

I'll second that. And since this entire thread is a retread of a completely useless debate that has been done to death too many times to count, and is also predicated on incorrect information, I move to cut off discussion and close the thread.

Given that their other major neighbor has never required a permit and has the lowest violent crime rate in the country, that's a pretty small hope.

I guess my first question would be whether or not 'due process' includes an adversarial hearing prior to submission of an individual's data to NICS. And the second question would be whether or not SSA is legitimately a 'lawful authority' for the purposes of 27 CFR 478.11. Anyone have any...