Posted on 01/19/2020 3:37:56 PM PST by willyd
With all of the crazy things flying around the internet these days, we decided we would try and make sense of the upcoming / current and proposed gun law changes in Virginia.
What Is Happening To Gun Rights In Virginia? First, let’s start with a little bit of a background. In the last election, Democrats took over the Congress in Virginia. They also won the governorship by getting Ralph Northam re-elected even though it emerged that he had worn “black face” or dressed like a clansman during a party he attended early in his career. (He never did say which one in the picture was him.)
With a Democratic Governor in office, Virginia was completely in the hands of the Democrats for the first time in a long time. Let’s just say they wasted no time trying to start curbing people’s 2A rights.
Their strategies for gun safety include: expanding background checks and banning “assault firearms”.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/politics/virginia-elections.html
Northam Gun Confiscation Northam’s first step was to request $4.8 million to form an 18 person team to enforce his proposed “assault weapons” ban.
In response, 91% of the counties in Virginia have declared themselves “gun sanctuaries” that will not enforce the proposed gun ban and confiscation scheme. These are modeled after the “sanctuary city” declarations that the left declared when they didn’t want to enforce federal immigration laws in their communities for political reasons.
Local sheriffs have stated that they would go as far as deputizing thousands of people in their county in order to get around the proposed gun confiscation.
Ironically, the legislation is having the opposite effect right now. Many gun store owners in Virginia cannot keep AR-15s in stock. Also, they are selling out of things like silencers and high capacity magazines.
Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/virginia-governors-call-for-18-person-gun-ban-force-comes-under-fire
What Kind of Guns Are Going To Be Confiscated in Virginia? Well, the proposed legislation is as follows:
* Assault Firearms
* Certain Magazines
* Trigger Activators
* Silencers
Violations would be a Class 6 Felony to import, sell, transfer, manufacture, purchase, possess or transport anything that meets the definition of an “Assault Firearm”.
Also, you cannot carry a shotgun that with a magazine that will hold more than seven rounds of the longest ammunition for which the shotgun is chambered.
Anyone who currently owns one of these treasures as of November 1, 2019 may continue to do so until July 6, 2020 at which time they must either:
* render the device inoperable
* remove it from the state
* transfer the arm to someone outside the state
* surrender the arm to the state
Source: https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?192+sum+HB4021
HB 569 Out-of-state concealed handgun permits; reciprocity According to the recent legislation introduced for the 2020 Session, there will be reciprocity in Virginia for concealed carry provided the following:
* Holder is at least 21
* The issuing state has a 24 hour a day means of verification of the validity of the permit
* The issuing state has requirements and qualifications that are adequate to prevent possession of permit by persons who would be denied a permit in Virginia
Currently, the Virginia law states: “The holder of an out-of-state concealed handgun permit who is at least 21 years of age is authorized to carry a concealed handgun in Virginia if:
(a) the other state has a means of verification of the validity of the permits issued in that state, accessible 24 hours a day, if available;
(b) the person carries a government-issued photo identification and displays it upon demand of a law-enforcement officer; and
(c) the person has not previously had a Virginia concealed handgun permit revoked.”
You can read more about the proposed concealed carry legislation below:
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=201&typ=bil&val=Hb569
Those attending the rally be careful. I heard of ANTIFA idiots busing in and wearing MAGA stuff. Will try and start stuff. Heads on a swivel people...
When is Va. going to target the illegal firearms of their Urban Utopia gangbangers?
Never it goes against their narrative
They also won the governorship by getting Ralph Northam re-elected
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Wrong, Northam was elected in 2017 and VA Gov’s cannot run for re-election
I’m hearing that the state is setting up violence as a false flag to blame it on gun owners, Trump, and Trump supporters. We know they do this crap, so wouldn’t be surprised. Organizers need to get ahead of this.
The column also calls the VA legislature “Congress”. It seems few people have true understanding of civics at any level these days.
Even though I live in Maryland, I’m going to the rally to support my Virginia brothers. Head on a swivel.
Bye the way, can someone post a live thread from Virginia? The rally starts at 11am with some lobbying beforehand.
Who is funding all of this chaos?
Now, when their personnel were occasionally captured they were sometimes captured with rocket propelled grenade launchers and mortars.
So ANTIFA has in the past shown that their integral paramilitary arm has access to support weapons.
Do they have idiots?
Oh yeah. Lots of them.
On the other hand, anyone who stands against them refusing to listen when those of us who monitored them during the cold war warn of the resources they can employ is just as big of an idiot.
These are not all just guys swinging bike locks and carrying semiautomatic rifles whilst wearing ersatz ninja suits. There are much higher trained and armed personnel mixed in at their higher levels.
Semper Fidelis.
Stay safe my fellow freeper!!!
The usual suspects.
Bloomberg, Soros, SPLC.
I thought that was racist?
Be prepared.
The leftist LOONS see it as racist ONLY if it doesn’t involve a Caucasian person.
They see RACISM & HATE, as well as hideous violence directed against Whites & Jews of any skin-tone as perfectly acceptable & fully warranted.
Yours, TMN78247
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