Vermont Gun Laws
"Once a proud people, brought down by their own empathy"
BACKGROUND CHECKS, 13 V.S.A. § 4019
Under Vermont’s new gun laws, an unlicensed person cannot “transfer” a firearm (meaning transfer ownership of a firearm by sale, trade, or gift) to another unlicensed person without the assistance of a licensed firearms dealer, unless an exception applies. The law exempts certain transfers, including transfers of a firearm by or to a law enforcement officer and transfers of a firearm from one immediate family member to another immediate family member.
Under this background checks rule, the only people a firearm owner may "transfer" or let borrow their firearm are family members. This leaves out boyfriend/girlfriends. So if your significant other, whom you're not married to, wants to borrow a firearm from you because they don't feel safe in their own neighborhood; tough luck. This also means that you would have to obtain a FFL (Federal Firearms Licence) in order to let a friend borrow a firearm for range day or for when they go out hunting by themselves.
SALE TO A PERSON UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE, 13 V.S.A. § 4020
As of April 11, 2018, the sale of firearms to persons under 21 years of age is prohibited unless the person is a law enforcement; an active or veteran member of the National Guard or the U.S. Armed Forces; or persons who can produce to the seller a certificate of satisfactory completion of a Vermont hunter safety course or equivalent hunter safety course approved by the Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife, including hunter safety courses from another state or a province of Canada.
In short: You're not allowed to have ALL of your rights when you turn 18, a legal adult, and have all the responsibilities as all other adults have; unless you want to carry a firearm for the government as its tax-collector and rule enforcer.
This is blatantly unconstitutional at a federal level, and why it hasn't been torn up shows how meek and spineless VT residents have become.
LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICES, 13 V.S.A. § 4021
Beginning April 11, 2018, the manufacture, possession, transfer, sale, purchase, or receipt or importation into Vermont of large capacity ammunition feeding devices is prohibited. This prohibition does not apply to large capacity ammunition feeding devices lawfully possessed on or before April 11, 2018, and the prohibition on importation into Vermont does “not include the transportation back into this State of a large capacity ammunition feeding device by the same person who transported the device out of State if the person possessed the device on or before” April 11, 2018. The prohibition on possession, transfer, sale, and purchase of large capacity ammunition feeding devices lawfully possessed by licensed dealers before April 11, 2018 does not take effect until October 1, 2018.
This single rule alone cuts out over 50% of the available guns a gun-owner can purchase, since most rifles come stock with magazines whose capacities are over 10 rounds per mag. This not only hurts gun enthusiasts, but also put the average civilian at risk. Mass shooters don't give a fuck about the law or magazine capacity restrictions, so the only people who will follow this law are the very same people who the criminals would want to make a victim out of; leaving them at a severe disadvantage when they find themselves in the middle of a terrorist attack.
BUMP-FIRE STOCKS, 13 V.S.A. § 4022
As of October 1, 2018, no one can possess a bump-fire stock. Under the law, a bump-fire stock is defined to mean “a butt stock designed to be attached to a semiautomatic firearm and intended to increase the rate of fire achievable with the firearm to that of a fully automatic firearm by using the energy from the recoil of the firearm to generate a reciprocating action that facilitates the repeated activation of the trigger.” Once effective, a violation of this new law is a misdemeanor crime. The Department of Public Safety will issue a collection process for bump-fire stocks prior to October 1, 2018, in order to permit voluntary and anonymous relinquishment of bump-fire stocks before that date.
This rule is stupid for several reasons, but the most obvious is that a person can bump-fire a rifle or pistol without any special mechanism or plastic gimmick. All this rule does is get rid of yet another taxable revenue stream that Vermont could benefit from, and instead pushes that market to the states with competing markets.
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