2016 Gun Owners of Vermont Firearm Questionnaire Responses
CAROLINE BRIGHT
Overall Score: 40%

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)?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #2: Would you vote for extending the present Federal background check system (or creating a comparable State system) to control all private exchanges and sales of firearms (i.e. Universal Background Checks)?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #3: Would you vote to prohibit sale and possession of semi-automatic firearms?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #4: 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?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #5: Would you vote to prohibit ammunition feeding devices (magazines) that hold more than 10 rounds?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #6: Would you vote to prohibit the sale and use of lead ammunition?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #7: Would you vote for mandatory state licensing for persons to possess firearms?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: YES
Explanation: Too often, people who are uneducated about proper use of firearms pick up a gun without proper training and use it dangerously and incorrectly. Licensing would ensure that people who legally utilize firearms are correctly trained in gun safety. Certain professions should come with automatic licensing provisions, such as police and members of the military.

Question #8: Would you vote for mandatory state registration of all firearms?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #9: Would you vote to prohibit citizens from exercising concealed and/or open carry of firearms without a license?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: If the state requires licensing to possess a firearm there should not be an additional license necessary to carry a concealed weapon.

Question #10: Would you vote for a mandatory waiting period before the transfer of a firearm can be completed?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #11: 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: YES
Explanation: Responsible gun owners who are committee to safe use of firearms already employ this tactic, particularly if there are children in the home.

Question #12: Would you vote to make it illegal to possess firearms in a place that has a liquor license?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: 0

Question #13: 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: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #14: Would you vote to repeal or allow municipalities to create exceptions to the Sportsmens’ Bill of Rights (1988) which prohibits municipalities from regulating hunting and firearm possession and use (other than discharging)?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: 0

Question #15: Would you vote to allow a person to possess, carry, or use a gun suppressor while taking game with a firearm?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #16: Do you support prohibiting convicted non-violent felons from possessing firearms?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: NO
Explanation: 0

Question #17: Would you vote to allow persons prohibited from possessing firearms to recover their right, if they have demonstrated good behavior and responsibility for a number of years?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0

Question #18: Would you vote to allow firearm safety training in public schools?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: YES
Explanation: Parents would of course be allowed to choose for their children not to participate if they have a moral objection to the use of firearms.

Question #19: Would you support decisions to have armed faculty or staff in public schools and colleges?
Desired Response = YES
Answer: 0
Explanation: It would depend on the limits imposed on what roles within a school the law would apply to. For example, a school resource police officer should have different requirements than other staff members.

Question #20: Would you vote to prohibit transfers to and possession of firearms by persons whose names appear on a government-generated list of persons deemed ineligible to possess firearms? If so, using what criteria?
Desired Response = NO
Answer: YES
Explanation: 0