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House keeps court-found-danger language in firearms bill after debate over mental-health stigma
Summary
After a floor debate focused on implicit bias and the difference between mental illness and court-found dangerousness, the House approved retaining section 3 of House Bill 606, which ties firearm-eligibility restrictions to court findings of dangerousness rather than broad mental-health categories.
The Vermont House approved retaining section 3 of House Bill 606 after a floor exchange in which members debated whether the provision targets people who pose a court-found danger or if it risks stigmatizing mental illness.
Member from Northfield spoke at length in favor of the committee-recommended language, arguing the provision applies only to a narrow set of circumstances when…
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