Good.
I wonder if VA will use credit purchases of guns for probable cause warrants.
It will be a felony to teach your child how to handle a firearm safely? This is evil.
Don't they know they're just going to have to turn around and give those ARs and magazines back?
I am rereading your first(?) book while watching it in real life.
For anyone who doesn’t already read Matt Bracken, his works are worth your time: https://www.amazon.com/Matthew-Bracken/e/B00350B7EU%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
Open season on unarmed citizens by those who won’t follow the law as in street hoods.
They are wise to mistrust their government! A government may be benign at first, as it doles out benefits, but it always amasses more and more power, and always imposes stricter and stricter laws, and always restricts freedoms, so that, in time, all governments tend to become overpowering dictatorships.
There is infinite wisdom in keeping government small. Let them build bridges and pave roads, but keep them out of our lives in every other way.
NRA Life Member since around 1990.
I think Trump should direct the DOJ to look at law suit options to get a case up to the Supreme Court as soon as possible.
WATCH the Gov’s other hand! While we have our eyes on this gun control schemes he may try to pass something else you don’t want!
“The only other person that was a better salesman right now is when we had President Obama...”
VA Governor giving 0bama a run for the money. LOL!
(I wrote and just published this on American Partisan.)
Rolling into 2020, all eyes are on Virginia following Governor Ralph Northam’s declared intention to pass onerous new gun control laws that could mandate the forced confiscation of common semi-automatic firearms which have been legal for Virginians to own for more than a century, ever since their invention. The first date in the coming showdown to be aware of is Monday, January 20th, when the Virginia Assembly opens for the new session, and Northam’s new gun laws will be considered. The Virginia Civil Defense League, a pro-Second Amendment group, is organizing a “Lobby Day” rally to be held at the state capitol to oppose these new gun control laws. It’s estimated that thousands of Virginians will attend the VCDL rally, many arriving in buses from all over the commonwealth.
In response to Northam’s plans, 90% of Virginia’s counties and many of its independent cities have declared themselves to be “second amendment sanctuaries.” After receiving vociferous pushback, Northam has recently stepped away from promising the outright confiscation of currently owned semi-auto weapons, and he is instead now demanding that gun owners register “grandfathered” weapons with the state government. Based on recent experiences in New York, Connecticut and other states that mandated registration, it’s assumed that very few Virginians will comply, instantly turning hundreds of thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens into paper felons.
What will Northam’s response be to mass defiance of his gun control edicts? Common investigative tools could easily be used to locate non-compliant Virginians and arrest them on felony gun charges. At least some gun confiscation raids would inevitably lead to armed resistance, beginning a cycle of action and reaction that could, over time, grow into a low-intensity guerrilla conflict or a “dirty civil war.”
How plausible is this unwanted outcome? And what forms might a civil war over gun rights take? In certain respects we are in uncharted waters, because there are some new and unique variables in the known and studied civil war and counter-insurgency equations that are far out of line with available historical precedents. Chief among them: in all of history there has never been a civil war where, at the outset of hostilities, the resisting indigenous population was armed to the teeth with rifles capable of making 500 to 1,000 yard aimed precision shots. Never.
On average, approximately 64,000 people live in each of Virginia’s 133 counties and independent cities and towns, average land area 324 square miles. Measured another way, about 7,000 people live in each of Virginia’s 1,218 postal zip codes, average land area 42 square miles. About 250,000 Virginia state hunting license are issued each year, a small fraction of the total number of firearm owners. Now this is just a guess, but I’d bet that there are at least a hundred riflemen in every Virginia zip code capable of walking out their front door in the next five minutes, and making a rested 500 yard aimed precision shot. (For non-shooters, that means these marksmen can hit the man-size target they are aiming at.) And many of these marksmen are hunters and outdoorsmen who know their regional woods and forests like the backs of their hands.
[The rest of the 2,600 word essay is at the American Partisan link.]
This tyrannical move from the DemoRat racist is in violation of the 2nd Amendment. This unconstitutional scheme can not stand as the SCOTUS should rule. This Rat opened up a Pandora’s box of ill consequences.
Thanks, Democrats - for being stuck on stupid.
Green Top - just north of Richmond - one of the great gun stores.
Section 241 of Title 18 is the civil rights conspiracy statute. Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same). Unlike most conspiracy statutes, Section 241 does not require that one of the conspirators commit an overt act prior to the conspiracy becoming a crime.
The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.
TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 241
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;...
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.