Source:	Date: 2015
'VT Gun Incident': Not Looking at GSV reports anymore
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Date: 7/15/2015	Town: Sentencing
VT Resident?: Yes	Law Abiding Citizen Prior to Incident: Felon
Event Type: Threatening	Firearm Crime: Federal Possession Charges
Injury Type: NONE
Actual Gun Use: Yes	Gun Actually Fired: Yes
Domestic Violence: No	Suicide: NO
Details: A Waterbury woman who threatened to harm the foster parents of her children has been arrested on a federal gun charge after buying a rifle, according to court records. Jamie Ransom, 34, is a convicted felon and prohibited from possessing any firearm, the ATF confirmed. ATF Special Agent Ben Cohen wrote in a court affidavit, “According to local law enforcement, Ransom has also within the last month made threats to harm the foster parents of her children.” The Vermont Family Court in Washington County had awarded custody of Ransom’s two juvenile children to a Waterbury couple last year. Ransom had previously denied a charge of simple assault on a Waterbury man serving as a foster parent in November 2014. “The government believes that the defendant is an opiate user based on information about Suboxone use provided to the government by the defendant.” There were some questions about possible drug and mental-health issues. Washington County State’s Attorney Scott Williams said one of his deputy prosecutors had heard on Wednesday about a possible threat Ransom made. Williams said based on that information and on the environment following the shootings in Washington County, a decision was made to alert law enforcement. Cohen said when investigators confronted Ransom about the firearm, she told them the gun was next door at an upstairs apartment. Ransom’s boyfriend, Tim Perry, accompanied the ATF into the apartment and directed agents to the gun. The gun is a Rossi S.A. .243 caliber rifle. “Ransom claimed she had purchased the firearm for a child,” Cohen wrote in his court affidavit. Court records fail to indicate where the rifle came from, and authorities declined to answer questions about the weapon’s source. Records show Ransom has a 2006 conviction in Washington County for passing a forged check. She was sentenced to one year on probation. While this woman was not in control of her faculties, the assigning of "FELON" to a non-violent crime as being the deciding factor in the revokation of Constitutional Rights, is of MAJOR concern to gun owners, considering the firearm was NOT actually in her possession or control at the time.
NO law will prevent crime. No law will stop criminals from getting guns. Gun Control only effects the law-abiding citizen and the politicians know it.
News Articles
Source 1: 9/4/2015: Arrest follows threat to foster parents
Source 2: 9/10/2015: Felon bought gun before DCF threat
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