Vermont: Omnibus Gun Control Bill Scheduled for Hearing on March 11

Vermont’s massive “omnibus” gun control bill is now scheduled for a hearing before the Vermont House Judiciary Committee on March 11, 2026. H.606 contains a wish list of gun control measures pushed nationally by anti-gun rights groups in the US. Please use the TAKE ACTION button below to urge committee members to oppose H. 606.

H. 606 is a clear ploy to attack law-abiding gun owners under the guise of getting tough on gun crime. While the first two sections of the bill increase penalties for theft and possession of stolen firearms and create harsher sentences for violent felons in possession of firearms, the rest of the bill has nothing to do with getting tough on crime:

• Section 5 of the bill would completely circumvent the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act and allow Vermont to sue gun manufacturers, distributors, and local gun shops out of existence, targeting everything from small Main Street family-owned business all the way up to the many high-quality manufacturers in the state that employ hundreds of Vermonters.
• Section 4 of the bill bans the possession of machine guns, machine gun conversion devices, and creates a completely ambiguous category called “rapid fire devices.” The bill makes no exception for machine guns legally acquired and registered under the National Firearms Act, and by creating vague categories of prohibited “devices,” the state could decide that virtually any perfectly legal, commercially available accessory “increases [a] weapon’s rate of fire or the speed at which the trigger is pulled.”
• Section 3 of the bill expands prohibited persons to include currently non-disqualifying mental health treatment. 

NRA-ILA will continue to monitor H.606 and fight for the rights of peaceable people across the Green Mountain State.