| 2018 Gun Owners of Vermont Candidate Report |
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| MIKE YANTACHKA |
| 2nd Amendment Stance: RABIDLY ANTI-GUN |
District: Chittenden 04-1
(Vote up to 1) |
| Contest: For State Representative (incumbent) |
| Party: Democratic |
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Additional Comments: 2016: In July, Rep. Mike Yantachka and Jean O'Sullivan were in Chicago attending the national legislative group meeting, American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, a national group attempting to push gun control one state at a time!
2015-16: Voted FOUR times for every aspect of S.141 (BAD)
2015-16: Sponsored H.566 (BAD) Burlington Charter Changes
2015-16: Sponsored H.567 (BAD) Burlington Charter Changes
2015-16: Sponsored H.568 (BAD) Burlington Charter Changes
2015-16: Sponsored H.775 (BAD) Universal Background Checks
2013-14: Sponsored H.0124 (BAD) MAGAZINE BAN
2013-14: Sponsored H.0125 (BAD) Facility to store confiscated firearms before destruction, creates licensing of persons carrying firearms in H.124
2013-14: Sponsored H.0243 (BAD) Makes it a crime for a "person" to negligently leave a firearm accessible to a child.
2011-2012 Sponsored H.83 (BAD) Negligent storage of a firearm
2011-2012 Sponsored H.580 (BAD) 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. |
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Mailing Address:
393 NATURES WAY
CHARLOTTE, VT 05445
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| Phone Number: (802) 233-5238 |
| Send Email to MIKE YANTACHKA: MYANTACHKA.DFA@GMAIL.COM |
| Click Here for Website |
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2018 Gun Bills: |
2018: SPONSOR H.151 (BAD)
An act relating to requiring background checks for the transfer of firearms. (Universal Background Checks v3.0)
Incorporated in S.55
Bill #1 |
Voted FOR H.422 (BAD). Unanimous vote in both House and Senate.
Bill #2 |
2018: SPONSOR H.876 (BAD)
An act relating to prohibiting bump-fire stocks for firearms
This was incorporated into S.55
Bill #3 |
Voted FOR S.55 (BAD)
Bill #4 |
Voted FOR S.221 . Unanimous vote in both House and Senate.
Bill #5 |
VT Digger Wrap-Up Gun Control
S.55, H.221 & H.422
Bill #6 |
2016 Gun Bills: |
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 #7 |
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 #8 |
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 #9 |
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 #10 |
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 #11 |
(2015) Voted FOR S.141 (Act 14) Gun Control Bill (BAD)
Bill #12 |
2015 Gun Owners of Vermont Analysis: Universal Background Check Legislation
Detail of S.141 Votes & GunSense Money
Bill #13 |
2014 Gun Bills: |
Sponsored H.287 (BAD) (House version of S.118): An act relating to modifying record retention and related requirements for pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers
This bill mandates retail and pawn shops to keep 'Gun Registry"'of personal buyer/seller PERSONAL information for 6 years available to law enforcement at all times.
This is illegal for the State to do on their own, but they can use this data and create their own without violating the Federal ban.
Also included in S.032
Bill #14 |
2013-14: Sponsored H.0124 (BAD): (MAGAZINE BAN) Prohibit the manufacture, possession, or transfer of large capacity ammunition feeding devices (making existing owners felons because magazines do not have date stamps on them).
Once the original owner dies, the firearm must be turned over to the autorities or the new owner will be in possession of an illegal firearm, and now a felon.
Mandating "safety" courses for ALL persons who carry concealed (precursor to full licensing, as only "approved" persons can carry concealed, any other person is a criminal).
Labeling citizens as "approved" to carry is in DIRECT VIOLATION of Article 16 of the Vermont Consitution.
There is NO restriction on "who" can carry firearms in Vermont.
Vermont is the ORIGINAL "Constitutional Carry" State, and it has served us well for over 200 years!
Bill #15 |
2013-14: Sponsored H.0125 (BAD): Creates a state-run facility to store confiscated firearms before destruction, creates a privately run safety training program (to fulfill the licensing of persons carrying firearms in H.124), allows the private center for Officer and State officials to be used as an indoor firing range.
Bill #16 |
2013-14: Sponsored H.0243 (BAD): An act relating to negligent storage of a firearm
Bill makes it a crime for a "person" (not necessarily the gun OWNER) to negligently leave a firearm accessible to a child.
All penalties are felonies, barring said person from possession of firearms as long as they live.
Bill #17 |
2012 Gun Bills: |
(2011) Sponsored one or both of H.83 and H.580 (BAD) or (Senate version S.59):
An act relating to negligent storage of a firearm
Bill #18 |
(2012) Sponsored H.580 (BAD):
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 #19 |
11/3/2013 Burlington GunSense 'forum':
79:15 Mike Speaks
Source #1 |
(2015) Regarding S.141: Rep. Yantachka of Charlotte explained his vote as follows: (page 17)
“Mr. Speaker: Fear!
We've heard comments today that reflect a fear that any bill we pass dealing with guns in any capacity will lead to no one being able to own a gun.
This is an irrational fear. It implies that if we move away from one extreme - an absence of regulation - that it will inevitably project us to the other extreme - a total outright ban of all gun ownership."
This use of IRRATIONAL FEAR by an anti-gunner is AMAZINGLY HYPOCRITICAL! The actual quote is much longer, but it is too painful to print...
Source #2 |
“Mr. Speaker: I voted yes for this bill. Why?
It was not money from Michael Bloomberg (I didn’t get any). I certainly didn’t get any from the NRA or the Vermont Sportsmen’s Federation. What had the most influence on me was the murder of 20 second graders and 6 of their teachers by a demented individual in Newtown, CT. We cannot forget them.”
Rep Yantachka LIED to the House on 4/16/15 because he DID receive money from Gun Sense VT to buy his vote. $200 was sent to him on 9/3/2014.
GSVT has been proven to be solely funded by Michael Bloomberg. Secretary of State website shows GunSense with $300,000 in 2013-14, but ZERO incoming money in 2015-16. How can a huge, 7000+ member anti-gun group go from $0 to $300,000 and back to $0 in 1 year's time? The money DID NOT come from their membership!!
Source #3 |
December 2013: Vermont Laws Regulating Firearms: Next Steps
Our goals should be to
• keep guns out of the hands of known criminals,
• keep guns out of the hands of persons with a history of domestic abuse,
• keep guns out of the hands of persons who, as a result of mental illness, are judged to be a danger to themselves or others and
• keep guns stored safely to prevent unsupervised access to them by our young people.
Next steps
First, a background check should be required for every transaction, retail or private, where gun ownership changes hands.
Furthermore, there is no limit to how many firearms can be purchased at one time.
Second, Vermont law should require that persons who have been determined by an authoritative legal process to be dangerous or incompetent to manage their own affairs due to mental illness, or who have been committed to a mental institution, or who have been found incompetent to stand trial by reason of insanity should be entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) database. The same should be required for persons under restraining orders or who have been convicted of domestic violence.
Third, Vermont police should be given explicit authority to enforce any federal firearms laws. This would allow violators to be prosecuted under Vermont law instead of having to refer them to the federal court system. A related issue is what to do with weapons confiscated during commission of a crime. Today, most Vermont police departments do not have adequate or proper storage facilities for confiscated weapons. The State of Vermont should provide for one or more facilities that can be used for this purpose.
Fourth, we have to make it more difficult for teenagers who may be coping with school, friendship, bullying or depression issues from getting their hands on guns and taking their own lives. It should not be considered a burdensome requirement for guns to be stored safely—with trigger locks installed—in homes with children or where children are likely to visit. Most Vermont gun owners are responsible, but we hear all too often of such tragedies.
So, I’m convinced that we need to tighten up regulations on the sale of guns in Vermont and that we can do so without violating the second amendment of the Constitution, without infringing on the time-honored traditions of hunting and sport shooting, and in a way that will reduce the incidence of gun violence in Vermont.
Source #4 |
8/4/2016: Attended Gun Sense VT Rally for Background Checks, Thursday, Aug 4 at 5 p.m.
Source #5 |
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