2018 Gun Owners of Vermont Firearm Questionnaire Responses
JACQUELINE 'BETH' FLECK
Overall Score: 95%

Question #1: Do you support the right of Vermonters to “keep and bear arms in defence of themselves and the State” (Vermont Constitution, Ch. I Art 16), without the restrictions placed on them in 2018?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #2: Would you vote for repealing the present Universal Background Check legislation that now controls the private exchange of firearms in Vermont?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #3: Would you vote to repeal the restriction on the purchase of firearms by persons under the age of 21?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #4: Would you vote to repeal the restrictions on ammunition feeding devices (magazines) that hold more than 10 rounds for rifles and 15 rounds for pistols?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #5: Would you vote to repeal the prohibition on the possession and sale of “bump stocks?”
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #6: Would you vote to prohibit sale and possession of semi-automatic firearms?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #7: Would you vote to prohibit the sale and possession of semi-automatic rifles that are styled to resemble military “assault rifles”, such as the AR-15 and AK-47?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #8: Would you vote to prohibit the sale and use of lead ammunition?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #9: Would you vote for mandatory state licensing for persons to possess/carry firearms?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #10: Would you vote for mandatory state registration of all firearms?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: Registration is the first step towards confinscation

Question #11: Would you vote for a mandatory waiting period before the transfer of a firearm can be completed?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #12: Would you vote for a mandatory “safe storage” law that requires privately owned firearms to be kept locked in a cabinet, separate from ammunition, or partially disassembled?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #13: Would you vote to make it illegal to possess firearms in a place that has a liquor license?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #14: Would you vote to allow the state or its municipalities to designate “gun free zones” in which citizens may not lawfully carry a firearm?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #15: Would you vote to enact civil penalties and/or fines, for towns that violate the Sportsman’s Bill of Rights (1988)?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: NO
Explanation: My reasoning behind the answer to this question is simple. Who is actually paying these fines? The tax payer. I believe in all personal liberties and believe that taxation is already killing Vermonters. The few that try to defy law through ordinances, as Burlington once did, are not the ones footing the bill for their poor choices at the end of the day. It has been made clear that any such ordinance holds no grounds and therefore is just better to fight it without causing undo harm to gun-advocating tax payers. Perhaps going directly after the members of boards that introduce or push for such silly things. I do not believe that any town should go without consequences for violating the Sportsman’s Bill of Rights, I’m just not sold on the idea of penalties that fall upon the backs of hard working Vermonters.

Question #16: Would you vote to allow a person to possess, carry, or use a gun suppressor for any legitimate purpose?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #17: Would you vote to expunge the criminal records of non-violent prohibited persons, to recover their Constitutional rights, if they have demonstrated good behavior and responsibility for a number of years?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #18: Would you vote to allow firearm safety training in public schools?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #19: Would you support decisions to have armed guards, and/or properly trained faculty and staff, in public schools and colleges?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: No additional comment.

Question #20: Would you vote to prohibit possession of firearms by persons whose names appear on a government-generated watch-list of persons deemed “ineligible” to possess firearms? If so, using what criteria?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: I don’t believe that the government or anyone has the right to pick and choose who is fit or unfit to own a firearm. One day anyone who is mentally ill is unable to own a firearm, the next day they say all gun owners are mentally ill therefore unfit. To me, it is a very slippery slope. I believe that such lists can be used to disarm a portion of the population that may be giving the government too much pressure or that the government doesn’t agree with.