| GEORGE TILL |
| 2nd Amendment Stance: RABIDLY ANTI-GUN |
District: Chittenden 03
(Vote for 2) |
| Contest: For State Representative (WIN) |
| Party: Democratic |
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State Web Page 2016:
State Web Page 2016: |
2016: 2nd Amendment Stance, Legislative Action and Voting History:
2015-26 Session: Sponsored H.775 (BAD) Universal Background Checks 2.0
Sponsored H.566 & H.567 & H.568 (Burlington Charter Changes 2.0) (BAD)
Sponsored H.709 (BAD)
Voted FOR S.141 gun control bill!
2013: Sponsored H.335 (BAD)
2013: Sponsored H.336 (BAD)
2011-12: Sponsored H.83 (BAD)
2011-12: Sponsored H.580 (BAD)
2011-12: Sponsored H.737 (BAD) |
2014: 2nd Amendment Stance, Legislative Action and Voting History:
2011-12 Session: Sponsored: H.83
H.580
H.737
2013-14 Session: Sponsored: H.335
H.336
Voted YEA on H.735 |
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Additional Comments: LIED to the House on 4/16/15 by quoting Bloomberg statistics and saying that S.141 is a small step in the right direction, but it is NOT ENOUGH.
“Mr. Speaker:
I vote yes. When one actually looks at the facts about gun deaths in Vermont, the statistics reveal a disturbing fact: Vermont has a much higher gun death rate than most people believe.
For 2013 Vermont had a gun death rate of 9.2/100,000, only a bit below the national average of 10.4/100,000. Vermont consistently has a higher gun death rate than New York, New Jersey and most of the New England states.
Vermont’s firearm death rate is double the rate in New York and almost 3 times the rate in Massachusetts.
Ninety percent of Vermont gun deaths are by suicide. We have the highest teen suicide rate in New England. S.141 takes a small step in the right direction. It is not enough but it is a step.
We do, in fact, have a gun problem in Vermont – that problem, today, is suicide. Both the mental health provision and the Vermont gun shop project are steps on the path to reducing the public health scourge of the impulsive act of suicide by firearm – which claims on average 60 Vermonters per year.”
George has an EXTENSIVE anti-gun history with almost a DOZEN bills in three sessions! |
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2015: Sponsored H.150 (GOOD) An act relating to gun silencers. Bill would leagalize silencers in VT.
Was actually amended to another bill and passed into law!
Bill #1 |
2015-16: Sponsored H.250 (BAD): An act relating to possession and transfer of firearms.
This is the House version of S.31, the Universal Background Check bill!
See the description of S.31.
Bill #2 |
2015-16: Sponsored H.566 (BAD): Subject: Municipal government; municipal charters; City of Burlington; amendment; firearms; safe storage depository; locking device
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to approve an amendment to the charter of the City of Burlington that would require that when a firearm is not in a person’s immediate possession or control, it must be locked in a safe storage depository or, by using a locking device, rendered incapable of being fired.
Bill #3 |
2015-16: Sponsored H.567 (BAD): Subject: Municipal government; municipal charters; City of Burlington; amendment; firearm, ammunition, or deadly or dangerous weapon; probable cause; domestic assault; police confiscation
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to approve an amendment to the charter of the City of Burlington that would allow a police officer to confiscate temporarily a deadly or dangerous weapon from a person whom the officer has probable cause to believe has committed domestic assault.
Bill #4 |
2015-16: Sponsored H.568 (BAD):An act relating to approval of an amendment to the charter of the City of Burlington prohibiting possession of firearms on premises where alcohol is licensed to be served
Subject: Municipal government; municipal charters; City of Burlington; amendment; premises where alcohol served; firearms possession prohibited
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to approve an amendment to the charter of the City of Burlington that would prohibit a person from possessing a firearm on premises where alcohol is licensed to be served.
Bill #4 |
2015-16: Sponsored H.709 (BAD): An act relating to homeowner's insurance and gun possession
Subject: Insurance; homeowner’s insurance; disclosure; guns
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to require an insurer that writes homeowner’s insurance policies to require a policyholder to disclose to the company whether the homeowner or member of his or her household possesses a gun that is stored on the insured property.
Bill #5 |
2015-16: Sponsored H.775 (BAD)
An act relating to possession and transfer of firearms
Subject: Crimes and criminal procedures; firearms; criminal background checks
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to require that a criminal background check be conducted on the proposed purchaser before a firearm may be sold unless the sale is between immediate family members, by or to a law enforcement agency, or by or to a law enforcement officer or member of the U.S. Armed Forces acting within the course of his or her official duties.
Bill #6 |
2015-16: Sponsored H.781 (GOOD)
An act relating to the use of gun suppressors for hunting
Subject: Fish and wildlife; game; hunting; gun suppressors
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to authorize a person to possess, carry, or use a gun suppressor while taking game with a gun.
Bill #7 |
2013-14: Sponsored H.0335 (BAD): Require a mandated 48-hour waiting period for all gun sales by dealers (would eliminate the "gun show" trade overnight).
Bill #8 |
2013-14: Sponsored H.0336 (BAD): Raises Reckless Endangerment to a felony, even if by accident, or the gun is UNLOADED and no harm could have been done.
Anyone charged with this crime is barred the possession of firearms as long as they live.
A person committing a crime while carrying a firearm (whether or not they USE the firearm) automatically receives between 5-10 years in prison.
Laws that ALL prohibit firearms ownership (whether by accident or intent).
Bill #8 |
(2011) H.83 (BAD)
Sponsor: An act relating to negligent storage of a firearm
Bill #9 |
(2012) H.580 (BAD)
Sponsor: This bill would require that information on safe firearm storage practices be distributed by merchants, by pediatricians, by mental health providers, by schools, and hunter safety courses, increase the fine for the offense of furnishing a firearm to a child; prohibit certain children from possessing firearms, require a warning about the risks of unsafe firearm storage to be displayed at every point of purchase of a firearm or private transfer of ownership of a firearm.
Bill #10 |
(2009) H.737 (BAD)
An act relating to negligent storage of a firearm
Bill #11 |
| Candidate Info Sources: |
48 Hour Waiting Period: Even a brief delay can be usually helpful to let somebody reconsider…
Source #1 |
2015: S.141 “Mr. Speaker: I vote yes. When one actually looks at the facts about gun deaths in Vermont, the statistics reveal a disturbing fact: Vermont has a much higher gun death rate than most people believe.
For 2013 Vermont had a gun death rate of 9.2/100,000, only a bit below the national average of 10.4/100,000. Vermont consistently has a higher gun death rate than New York, New Jersey and most of the New England states.
Vermont’s firearm death rate is double the rate in New York and almost 3 times the rate in Massachusetts.
Ninety percent of Vermont gun deaths are by suicide. We have the highest teen suicide rate in New England. S.141 takes a small step in the right direction. It is not enough but it is a step.
We do, in fact, have a gun problem in Vermont – that problem, today, is suicide. Both the mental health provision and the Vermont gun shop project are steps on the path to reducing the public health scourge of the impulsive act of suicide by firearm – which claims on average 60 Vermonters per year.”
Source #2 |
(2015) Voted FOR S.141 Gun Control Bill (BAD)
Source #3 |
2015 Gun Owners of Vermont Analysis: Universal Background Check Legislation
Detail of S.141 Votes & GunSense Money
Source #4 |
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