Vermont Passes Sweeping Gun Control Bill, Is No Longer One Of The Most Gun-Friendly States

By Brandon Curtis

Let’s start this off by saying that this is not an April Fools joke.

The Vermont state Senate passed a package of laws on Friday that we thought we’d never see from a state with constitutional carry, as well as having some of the most lax gun laws on the books.

That all changed Friday, when they “approved raising the legal age for gun purchases, expanding background checks for private gun sales and banning high-capacity magazines and rapid-fire devices known as bump stocks.”

Republican Gov. Phil Scott said that he would sign the bill, and also acknowledged that many gun owners in the state would be very upset with the legislation. He does not, however, feel that any of the new laws step on the 2nd Amendment.

“I share it. I know why they are disappointed,” Scott said. “But I think at the end of the day, they’ll soon learn that what we have proposed, what’s being passed at this time, doesn’t intrude upon the Second Amendment.

It doesn’t take away guns, and I believe that we will get accustomed to the new normal, which is trying to address this underlying violence that we are seeing across the nation.”

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Source:: Concealed Nation