Vermont governor eager to sign 3 gun control bills

By Chris Eger

Gov. Phil Scott says the trio of gun bills headed to him still square with Second Amendment rights. (Photo: Angela Evancie/Vermont Public Radio)
Lawmakers in the Green Mountain State passed a pair of gun confiscation measures Thursday, sending them to a Republican governor who is prepared to approve them.
The two bills, S.221 and H.422, would remove guns from those thought to be “at risk” and from those arrested or cited on domestic assault charges. Both proposals passed unanimously in the legislature this week and join a third, S.55, already on Gov. Phil Scott’s desk.
“As I’ve said, I strongly support the second amendment and all Constitutional rights,” said Scott in a statement about the legislation. “I support S.55, S.221, and H.422 because I believe these bills uphold these rights while taking reasonable steps to reduce the risk of violence.”
S.55, which would restrict magazine capacity to 15 rounds on handguns and 10 rounds on rifles, ban bump stocks and raise the age to buy guns in the Vermont to 21, slid past the state Senate last week by one vote and triggered a magazine giveaway from gun rights groups who rallied to oppose the measure.
S.221 would add a mechanism to Vermont law to

Source: Guns.com