A perfect storm of $600 recovery checks, an incoming gun-control president, and last week’s riot and predicted unrest have resulted in huge sales in Vermont gun shops. And not all of the customers are Vermonters.

Proposed gun bills include a 48-hour waiting period, notification of police of “extreme risk” gun owners, and prohibition of carrying semi-auto firearms at public gatherings.

Vermont police are planning for possible gatherings of armed citizens at the Vermont State House January 17. Vermont is an “open carry” state so police don’t mind if protesters are carrying. But they won’t tolerate people pointing guns at other people.

A young, conservative U-32 student wonders why Vermont needs gun control when most Vermont gun owners are responsible hunters.

John Rodgers won’t be Vermont’s Senator for the Second Amendment anymore. There will soon be a president in Washington who doesn’t know an AR-15 from an AR-14. Vermont’s gun rights organizations are waiting expectantly, keeping their powder dry.

A judge is expected to rule in February if the Slate Ridge firearms training center in Pawlet lacks the necessary zoning permits.

With a month left to go, gun sales in Vermont appear to have exceeded 50,000 for the first time since the federal government began conducting firearms background checks in 1998.

There be trouble brewing in the little bitty town of West Pawlet. With 1,386 residents according to the census, one might not immediately think that the picturesque New England village nestled in the hills near the New York border might be a setting for turmoil, yet a local feud between neighbors has recently turned into a story that is fast becoming one of the more contentious topics in the state.

Just wait a doggone minute, supporters of Slate Ridge firearms training center say - we’re the ones being persecuted by our neighbors, not the other way around. This assessment appears to encompass the local daily newspaper, which was hit with a harassment claim by Slate Ridge.

The people who don’t like living near the Slate Ridge firearms training facility in Pownal say they like guns as much as the next Vermonter. What they don’t like (among other things) is the facility owner posting information about them on the internet in connection with their long, long running battle with him over the zoning of property.