Lawful

No duty to notify

Concealed Carry is legal in accordance with state laws that regulate the right to carry

No restriction

Schools individually decide the weapons policy.

Unloaded firearms in locked cases in vehicles only.

Churches act like any other private property and may restrict
on a church by church basis

No legal restriction - Reference article on page 67

There are legal consequences if one fails to secure their firearm and that leads to a minor gaining unauthorized access.

A person shall not manufacture, possess, transfer, offer for sale purchase, or receive, or import into this
State a large capacity ammunition feeding device. This includes a magazine, belt, drum,
feed strip, or similar device that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept: more than 10 rounds of ammunition for a long gun; or more than 15 rounds of ammunition for a hand gun. Some exceptions apply.

Legal. State law does not require NFA registration. Hunting legal.

Loaded handguns allowed in vehicle. Long guns must be unloaded

Uniform throughout state

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Yes. The first state to offer carry without a permit simply because they have never had a permit program or required such a thing to carry. Both residents and non-residents 18+ may carry.

No duty to retreat if the deadly force was immediately necessary to defend against imminent threat of death or bodily injury

- School buildings and school buses. School property — including any vehicle owned, leased, controlled, or subcontracted by the school — is off limits only if possessed with intent to injure. A school board, superintendent, or principal may authorize possession for specific occasions or purposes
- Courthouses, meaning any building or portion of a building the Vermont Supreme Court designates as one, without authorization from the court. Notice must be posted at each public entrance. Courthouses certified as "secured buildings" — controlled access points, metal screening, and locked storage compartments — bar dangerous weapons entirely
- Hospital buildings. Notice must be posted at each public entrance; the penalty is a fine up to $250
- Polling places and the walks leading to a building containing one on election day, and the town clerk's office during any early voting period. A firearm stored in a motor vehicle is excepted, and notice must be posted at each public entrance
- State buildings under the jurisdiction of the Department of Buildings and General Services, open or concealed
- The Mud Creek Controlled Hunting Area in Alburg, without a Fish and Wildlife permit
- Residential treatment program property, including program and employee vehicles
- Posted private preserves, without the owner's written consent
- The Bomoseen State Game Refuge
- State-owned historic sites, where firearms may not be displayed during public visitation without a special permit
- Limited-access state highways, where use, display, or discharge is prohibited — which reads as a bar on open carry
- Any land or place where notice against trespass has been given, by actual communication or by signs designed and situated to give reasonable notice
- State parks located on Army Corps of Engineers land, per federal law

Vermont Attorney General
109 State St
Montpelier, VT 05609
801-828-3171
ago.vermont.gov

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Vermont doesn't issue permits.