Posted on 01/16/2007 11:19:23 AM PST by neverdem
Transportation Deal Also Seems Imminent
RICHMOND, Jan. 15 -- Proponents of tougher state laws governing the sale of firearms, most of them from Northern Virginia, urged the General Assembly on Monday to require criminal background checks of all buyers at gun shows.
The measure would close the so-called gun-show loophole, which allows unlicensed dealers to sell firearms at shows in Virginia without conducting the criminal checks required of licensed dealers. Its purpose, supporters said, is to prevent criminals who are prohibited from possessing guns from obtaining them by shopping anonymously at gun shows.
"This is not a bill about taking away anyone's Second Amendment rights," said Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites Davis (R-Fairfax). "What this is about is making sure that upstanding citizens possess firearms and that those who are criminals do not."
Meanwhile, sources said late Monday that Republican lawmakers in the Senate and House of Delegates appeared to have reached an agreement on a wide-ranging transportation deal and could unveil it as early as Tuesday morning.
The GOP leaders have been meeting for weeks in hopes of ending a year-long stalemate over new money for roads and transit. Participants in the negotiations and people familiar with the agreement said it would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads and more statewide.
In addition, the agreement would grant localities new powers to control growth and sprawl and impose changes at the Virginia Department of Transportation aimed at making the bureaucracy more efficient.
On gun regulations, opinions fall largely along regional lines, with Northern Virginians far readier to regulate gun possession than are those from other parts of the state, most notably rural Virginia.
Members of the Northern Virginia chapter of the Million Mom March lined up alongside dozens of schoolchildren to support the gun-show bill at...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"lined up alongside dozens of schoolchildren to support the gun-show bill"
Why are school children involved in this? What idiot decided that it was alright to use schoolchildren as props to further their anti-2A agenda?
They use children as part of their propaganda. Simple as that.
"We need to close this dangerous loophole," said Kailey Leinz, 11, a sixth-grader at Keene Mill Elementary School in Springfield, "so kids like me won't feel scared -- scared that somebody could just come into our school and start shooting."
Unbelievable. A new low by the antis. Anybody care to wager if young Kailey was actually aware of this "dangerous loophole" before the antis got hold of her?
I suppose they want us to think the school thing with the two boys was caused by guns purchased anonymously in VA. We all know those boys used their parents' guns.
In the process they propagandize the children. Sick!
I'm sure she wasn't.
This is just another attempt to outlaw private transfer of guns and it is a restriction on the Second Amendment.
It attempts to make gun ownership look like a crime.
Hitler's Propaganda Ministry under Goebles (sp) could learn from the lefties of today.
Liberal blather, "It's for the children." Without firearms, how are we going to protect them? Take this test, Mr. And Mrs. Liberal:
Call the cops, then order a pizza. Who will get there first.
Want extra cheese with that?
"Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites Davis (R-Fairfax)"
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She has an (R) after her name eh?
Whenever politicians say that it's not about the 2nd amendment, when they phrase it like that, that's exactly what it's about. Criminals do not buy guns at gun shows, gun stores, or even at sporting goods stores. They know somebody who know somebody who can get them a piece for X amount of dollars off the street.
She is Tom Davis' wife. He is the Republican Congressman for a district in northern Virginia.
e agreement would grant localities new powers to control growth and sprawl and impose changes
just thought I'd point out a very scary overlooked little add on .... looks like private property rights are going to be taking a hit.
There is no "loophole".
If you are not licensed, you are not a "dealer".
But, for fun, try it this way....
The measure would close the so-called car-show loophole, which allows unlicensed dealers to sell cars at shows in Virginia without conducting the checks required of licensed dealers.
Private property, privately held, privately sold, in a public venue.
Maybe it is because the WaPo does not get to sell a 'classified' ad... /sarc
It already is in many states. In Pennsylvania, ALL private transactions (including rifles/shotguns) must go through an FFL or the government revokes your citizenship (e.g. convicts you of a crime that permenantly takes away the right to ever own guns).
Yep. Sometimes Government is the problem, not the solution.
That's good enough for a lot of Freepers. :(
Isn't this the chapter that was led by a woman arrested for illegal gun possession shortly after the Million Moron March?
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