Maybe not in so many words. But the Lamoille Valley Fish and Game Club are making their displeasure with the city known and they’ve declared all members of the Burlington PD persona non grata. The casus belli: the Burlington city counsel’s attempt to enact a local “assault weapons” ban. “’We have members in Burlington as well as members of our club that are going to be passing through Burlington and this would directly affect them and we felt that a prejudicial vote like that was going to be non-supportive of our club and being non-supportive of our club makes it very difficult to support Burlington City,’ the club’s chairman Bob Boivin said.” According to foxnews.com, that’s gonna put a crimp in the BPD’s training regimen . . .
And the boys in blue aren’t happy about it.
In response, the Burlington Police Department released a statement saying: “It is unfortunate that this important and much-needed community dialogue regarding gun control currently under way in the City of Burlington and across the nation has resulted in this action.”
City council president Joan Shannon says the buck stops here in Montpelier and D.C.
“Ultimately, I don’t think that the best way to assert control over guns is at the local level,” conceded Joan Shannon, president of the Burlington City Council. “But here in Burlington, I think we felt the need to act because we didn’t see action coming from either the state level or the federal level.”
But the club doesn’t want to see Vermont — a constitutional carry state — become a patchwork of unmanageable local restrictions for gun owners to navigate. And the Burlington proposal would be the first step on that slippery slope.
“If you’re going to a shoot, say in one end of Vermont to the other, you have to check the laws for every town in between, and you will pass through a half a dozen different towns, and that makes it almost impossible for someone to stay as a legal gun owner, and that’s what we’re concerned about,” he said.
Perhaps a preemption law at the state level would be the best resolution for all involved. Just a thought.
I just spent a half an hour perusing the web pages of the Chicago Tribune. And there is not a single mention of this bill. Not one. If it isn’t in the Trib, it isn’t news, right? Or if we bury our heads in the sand, this “problem” will go away? And this lack of reporting mere days after the Trib reported that Rahm announced he would be introducing his own Chicago gun laws because the Legislature had not reached any consensus….I wonder how he planned on incorporating the Moore decision?
Good for them!
More Municipal PD’s need to speak up in support of gun rights and against more restricitions, this is a nudge to them to stop being bystanders. I am starting to see a rift between Municpal Police Chiefs who are appointed vs. County Sherriff’s who are elected by the people.
It sends the message to the city that they can provide at their cost( all taxpayers cost) a facility for local pd training or send them some where to get it. The club may or may not get compensated for allowing local pd to use their facilities. I know of clubs here in Texas who allow local small town PD’s that do not have facilities to use theirs for training and certifications as there is just not enough in the local budget to have a dedicated place for just the PD. The cost associated with maintaining the facility are on the club members maybe now the anti’s / city council will have to burden some of the costs or the local pd may not be as ready to protect them as they were when the local gunclub supported their training efforts.
In addition to what neo297 said above, many gun clubs also give discounted or free memberships to law enforcement officers, along with exempting them from membership caps.
In areas where the waiting list can be years to get into a private gun club — I had to wait 10 years to get into one — revoking those privileged membeships and making LEOs from anti-gun jurisdictions get in line like the rest of us peasants would send a strong message.
This one is my own – not MSM, but BSM (Brown Stream Media) descriptive of the Bullshit that usually flows from their direction.
Lets just say a few things
1) More study is needed on the causes and treatment of mental illness and if certain drugs are truely dangerous because many of the studies are old and nobody seems to want to have new ones. There are studies that say women who are obese could have children with mental issues. Who knows, more study is required.
2) The ACLU can FOAD regarding the rights of those who may cause harm to themselves or others and those people should be documented and seperated from firearms and other dangerous tools. The police, EMS and fire dept should all be trained on identifying and dealing with those who are mentally ill and have the authority to take them in for evaluation
3) A program where patients can have out patient treatment provided they stay on their meds and seek treatment needs to be developed in every state. Starting with local, regional and state level treatment options.
4) NOT EVERYONE with a mental disorder needs to be locked up — that is purely
BS.
5) Specific care and responsibility needs to be had by gun owners with family members with substance abuse or mental illness issues.
6) This is a national problem, and putting a tax on bullets is not the answer since this can happen to everyone.
Notice how the mental illness has recieved pretty much ZERO press even though yesterday there was task force session just on mental health. Nobody wants to talk about the problem.
The picture behind the zombie implies that the 30 round PMAG shown is a 100 round drum magazine.
How shocking to find a lie in a picture supporting civilian disarmament.
Piers is a complete douchebag.
Not that long ago, back in the safe England that he likes so much, he ran his mouth about shooting someone he did not like.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “no one’s ever snapped a photo of Bigfoot”? They sure have!!
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Will comments made before the fix be posted, or are you finished filtering old comments?
I shoot there 😀
It looks like everybody’s in the same boat here- As long as Wal-Mart can get it to their shelves, and they’re not jacking their prices, 3 boxes a day seems pretty reasonable.
Anyone think you could have gotten 51% in favor of expelling Muslims in the days after 9/11. I know you could get 51% to severely restrict abortion. How about repealing an Amendment which would make it a lot easier for conservatives to win elections?
If you want to amend the Constitution, there is a process.