{"id":92590,"date":"2023-05-08T11:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92590"},"modified":"2023-05-08T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:01:22","slug":"92590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92590","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Vermont Gun Bill Creating 72-Hour Waiting Period Passes<\/a><\/p>\n

The Vermont Legislature on Friday passed a bill that requires a 72-hour waiting period for the purchase of guns and includes other provisions aimed at reducing suicides and community violence.<\/p>\n

The Vermont House concurred with a Senate amendment by a vote of 106 to 34. But Republican Gov. Phil Scott \u201chas significant concerns about the constitutionality of the waiting period provision,\u201d his spokesman Jason Maulucci said Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The legislation also creates a crime of negligent firearms storage and expands the state\u2019s extreme risk protection orders so that a state\u2019s attorney, the attorney general\u2019s office or a family or household member may ask a court to prohibit a person from purchasing, possessing or receiving a dangerous weapon.<\/p>\n

Supporters say it\u2019s time to take action against gun violence and the rate of suicide in Vermont, which is higher than the national rate.<\/p>\n

Opponents say the bill violates the Second Amendment of the Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Per Heller and the Bruen Standard, it mostr certainly does<\/p>\n

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According to the bill, more than 700 Vermonters died of gunshots from 2011 to 2020 and 88% of those deaths were suicides. In 2021, the state\u2019s suicide rate was 20.3 per 100,000 people, compared to a national rate of 14 per 100,000, the bill states. Children in a home with a firearm are more than four times more likely to die by suicide than those in a home without one, the legislature states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vermont Gun Bill Creating 72-Hour Waiting Period Passes The Vermont Legislature on Friday passed a bill that requires a 72-hour waiting period for the purchase of guns and includes other provisions aimed at reducing suicides and community violence. The Vermont House concurred with a Senate amendment by a vote of 106 to 34. But Republican … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92591,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92590\/revisions\/92591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}