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Virginia Assault Firearms Ban Blocked Statewide Until Dec. 31
ammoland.com ^ | June 25, 2026 | Duncan Johnson

Posted on 06/25/2026 1:11:13 PM PDT by PROCON

A Virginia judge has issued a statewide preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the Commonwealth’s new ban on so-called “assault firearms” until December 31, 2026, handing Virginia gun owners a major victory just days before the law was scheduled to take effect.

The ruling came Thursday in Crump v. Katz, the state-court challenge to Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s sweeping gun-control package. The judge read the preliminary injunction from the bench and made clear that the assault-firearms ban is now enjoined statewide while the case proceeds.

The Commonwealth tried to limit the injunction to Lancaster County. The judge refused.

The state then asked the judge to stay his own ruling. He refused that, too.

That means the injunction is in effect now unless a higher court intervenes. Virginia’s assault-firearms ban is not merely delayed on paper. It is blocked statewide through Dec. 31.

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1 posted on 06/25/2026 1:11:13 PM PDT by PROCON
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2 posted on 06/25/2026 1:12:17 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: PROCON

Higher totem pole judge will overturn.


3 posted on 06/25/2026 1:12:21 PM PDT by rktman (Patriotism over dem/commie/socialist 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: rktman

4 posted on 06/25/2026 1:20:17 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The greatest power the media has is the power to ignore.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Even the article mentions that. One can hope.


5 posted on 06/25/2026 1:26:06 PM PDT by rktman (Patriotism over dem/commie/socialist 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: PROCON

“assault firearms” ..........Every firearm is an assault firearm........I can hit you with it after its empty!...............


6 posted on 06/25/2026 1:28:47 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: PROCON

good news!
we really need to figure out a way to remove commie-nazi “judges” that won’t obey their oaths of office to uphold the constitution...from the bench


7 posted on 06/25/2026 1:30:35 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: PROCON

As soon as lefties get power, they go all out to put in their agenda.

When conservatives get power, they lolly-gag around.


8 posted on 06/25/2026 1:36:12 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: Fido969

Yep. Republicans are moronic and cowardly.


9 posted on 06/25/2026 1:45:08 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: PROCON

“assault firearms”. I don’t know what that is, I have a lot of rocks in my driveway could they be assault rocks?


10 posted on 06/25/2026 1:46:58 PM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthbym because + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: PROCON

So, where did we get a freedom-loving judge (unnamed in the article) that can read the USSC Bruen decision?

We’ve had “assault rifles” since the Winchester 1905 self-loading. AR pattern rifles are overwhelmingly the most popular rifles in America for years and years. Is that in common use enough for you, commie judges?


11 posted on 06/25/2026 1:53:05 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: PROCON

So in the meantime, can residents of Virginia buy and possess “assault rifles?”


12 posted on 06/25/2026 2:37:50 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: kawhill

...I feel sad for the residents of Virginia today...lived there for 43 years...have many happy memories of our time there...Comrade Spanberger campaigned as a moderate, but
her true colors emerged after her election...yes, AR DOES
stand for “assault rocks” so watch them be banned soon...!!!


13 posted on 06/25/2026 3:15:13 PM PDT by TokarevM57 ( )
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To: Red Badger

Today in 1876, Custer was defeated by a people armed with the then latest firearms on the market. The Tube fed Lever action rifle. Yet after that, no one called for a ban on those rifles for everyone. In fact, in the attempt to ban handguns in 1934 it was said a RIFLE was better for home defense than a handgun. In 1984 they came for the rifles.


14 posted on 06/25/2026 3:20:52 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL HOSPITALS! Closed in the 1970s, murders by crazies sky rocketed!)
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To: Red Badger
Every firearm is an assault firearm........I can hit you with it after its empty!

LOL!

15 posted on 06/25/2026 6:12:41 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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To: Red Badger

I have hammers, kitchen utensils, frying pans, glassware, screwdrivers - all can be used to assault someone. Or not. The guns are tools.

And frankly, given the purpose of the second amendment, we should all have as assaulty of assault weapons that we can get. Especially with the rise of communism in our government.


16 posted on 06/25/2026 6:14:24 PM PDT by meyer (We have made it past that awkward stage that Claire Wolfe wrote about.)
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To: faithhopecharity

The way our Colonial Forefathers did it, was show up at their home and physically remove them to another location.


17 posted on 06/26/2026 2:48:43 AM PDT by Terry L Smith (....)
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To: PROCON

Note the pic - designed to put fear in leftists hearts - unless they lust for one to use on Conservative Christians.

Looks like SCOTUS will decide sometime next year.

I’m in S. MS where open and concealed carry are constitutional - no license needed. I was on a fishing pier a while back when a man asked if I was an LEO because of the gun on my hip. I replied that I was merely exercising my constitutional right.
He then proceeded how scary/terrifying it was to see someone sporting a weapon. I assured him that wasn’t my intent....he nattered on and on about how damn terrifying it was and finally got tired of him, so I said, “If it was that darn terrifying, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.” That finally shut him up.


18 posted on 06/26/2026 4:37:11 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Terry L Smith

Guantanamo comes to mind


19 posted on 06/26/2026 6:46:47 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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