2018 Gun Owners of Vermont Candidate Report
JOE BENNING
2nd Amendment Stance: STRONG PRO 2A
District: Caledonia Senate
(Vote up to 2)
Contest: For State Senate (incumbent)
Party: Republican
(BULLET VOTE for 1)

2016 Gun Owners of Vermont Firearm Questionnaire
(Click Score to View Responses) 100%
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Additional Comments: Worked with GoVT on S.141 to remove the unconstitutional aspects of the bill and to provide a method of regaining your right to keep and bear arms once treatment is completed.
2014: Joe was in contact with Gun Owners of Vermont on the crucial H.735 process.
Sponsored S.94: This bill proposes to require the Department of Mental Health to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (part of which was included in 2016: S.141).

Mailing Address:
HAPPY HILL ROAD P.O. BOX 142
LYNDONVILLE, VT 05851
Phone Number: (802) 274-1346
Send Email to JOE BENNING: BEANER77@MYFAIRPOINT.NET
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2018 Gun Bills:
Voted FOR H.422 (BAD). Unanimous vote in both House and Senate.
Bill #1
Voted AGAINST S.55 (GOOD)
Bill #2
Voted FOR S.221 . Unanimous vote in both House and Senate.
Bill #3
VT Digger Wrap-Up Gun Control
S.55, H.221 & H.422

Bill #4

2016 Gun Bills:
(2015) Voted FOR S.141 (Act 14) Gun Control Bill (To be eligible for Conference Committee)
Bill #5
2015 Gun Owners of Vermont Analysis: Universal Background Check Legislation
Detail of S.141 Votes & GunSense Money

Bill #6

2014 Gun Bills:
2013-14: Sponsored S.0094 (BAD): An act relating to reporting dangerous and mentally ill persons to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
Senate version of H.467: Mandates the State notify the National Instant Criminal Background Check System when a person is treated for mental illness, whether hospitalized or not hospitalized, so that the person will now appear as a "Prohibited Person" (ie. felon) and will be forever barred the possession of firearms.
There is currently, no way out of the NICS even if the person is no longer a threat, or found not to be mentally ill.
There is NO provision to EVER remove this prohibition!
This type of law is CONTINUOUSLY updated with new restrictions and clauses.

Bill #7
12/16/17: Proposed Gun Legislation In Congress
GOP State Senator, Joe Benning, said, "Death by a firearm is rare in Vermont and Vermont is consistently at the top of the list for safest states."
Benning went on to say, "For Vermont, nobody has proved expanding background checks will improve our already safest state status."

Source #1
9/22/2016: Joe comments on the latest anti-gun wave: domestic violence: "Before the legislature becomes embroiled in the controversy of universal background checks, does the author know how many of those six fatalities would have been avoided with a mandatory universal background check?"
"It is illegal at both the state and federal level for someone convicted of domestic violence to obtain a gun. And last year the legislature created a system to place an abuser’s weapons in safe storage with police or gun facilities. Again, before the legislature becomes embroiled in this controversy, and considering that abusers are already forbidden from having firearms, what new regulation is this group calling for?"

Source #2
3/16/15: Senator Benning also wrote on his Facebook page that, "I am fully cognizant that there are those who still seek to have Vermont adopt a universal background check. I remain, and i believe that the majority of the committee remains adamantly opposed to such a thing on constitutional grounds. I can quite confident when I say the Judiciary committee takes your constitutional rights VERY seriously."
Source #3
VIDEO: Gun Owners of Vermont Rally 3/9/2014:

Joe speaks at 5:25

Source #4
Vermont Gun Legislation Forum in Pawlet, 10/8/14:
Joe speaks at 1:19:27 (he drove THREE HOURS to attend this event!).

Source #5

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