Bloomberg-financed Everytown, taking a page from their successful Washington State playbook from last year, has released an investigative study that contends some 4 percent of potential online gun buyers in Vermont are criminals. (Photo: Everytown for Gun Safety) A series of dummy transactions set up by a gun control group through an online classified service claims domestic abusers, fugitives from justice, and drug traffickers are buying. The operation, set up by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety group targeted online buyers in Vermont. As part of their investigation, private detectives hired by the group posted 24 ads on Armslist, a free gun classifieds service, then tracked those who responded to the listings. Of the 169 respondents who answered the listings that the group could identify, they claim after a public record search that 7, about 4 percent, could have been prohibited from possessing a firearm. This report comes as the group is championing a controversial push in the state legislature to enact new and expanded background check requirements to require virtually all private gun sales to take place through a Federal Firearms License holder. “This report should be a wake-up call for Vermont,” said Burlington’s Democratic Mayor Miro Weinberger in a statement issued by Everytown with the report .
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