Virginia Is Ground Zero in the War over Gun Control

American Thinker.com ^ | January 4, 2020 | Melanie Kowalski

[Kaslin]

When Democrats won control of both houses of the Virginia Legislature November 5, 2019, Virginia gun-owners got a rude wake-up call. Now that wake-up call is spreading to gun-owners throughout the rest of the 49 states.

In July 2019, Gov. Ralph Northam proposed a package of eight proposals that would tighten Virginia's gun laws, known as some of the least restrictive in the country. Currently, Virginia's gun control measures of merit ban the sale of firearms only to high-risk individuals and those convicted of domestic violence. However, the proposals would turn the least restrictive into what some would call dangerously restrictive, a premeditated strike against the Second Amendment. Northam's proposed package calls for legislation:

[Perseverando]

4th Generation Warfare Handbook
(free download multiple formats at Archive.org - pdf works best for me)

[Perseverando]

[Perseverando]

[Salvavida]

Stop it. The UN doesn't have a base in the US. They obviously bought the trucks here, or had them overhauled at a depot, and are transporting them to a port.

There is no way the gun-grabbers would put the UN as boots on the ground. Planning, maybe, but not boots on the ground.

[jjotto]

American companies get contracts to customize vehicles for the UN. Such vehicles then have to be transported. In the past there were FR posters who knew what companies and where.

Alpine Armoring in Virginia is one company that does this.

[TalBlack]

Democrats will turn this country into a burning fire if they can’t win in 2020. “””

Yep, that’s the way I see it. 2020 is it no matter WHO wins the election...

[Disambiguator]

It’s almost as if Northam & Co. read your “Enemies” trilogy and took the wrong lesson from it!

[antidemoncrat]

The question is did the people that voted for these jerks now the ones that are worried about gun confiscation or are they being overwhelmed by snowflakes that think the government will “take care” of them, cradle to grave?

[oldasrocks]

Everyone is going to have to switch to belt fed weapons.

[Fightin Whitey]

If Northampton doesn’t back off, people are going to get hurt, or worse.

When I first read your post I saw it as "If Northamton doesn't black off, people are going to get hurt..."

old eyes lol

[Seruzawa]

Every time I go to this site I get some popup that tries to force me to accept gift cards and I have to close the window. Be warned.

[Kaslin]

That must be your computer

[Travis McGee]

I think Northam or somebody like Wally Malvone from EFAD has a very smart plan.

All the hoo-ha over confiscation is just hot air until the law passes and it goes up to the SCOTUS, where it will be shot down.

In the meantime, Northam/Malvone has arranged the Mother of All Buffalo Jumps, which can be turned into the worst anti-2A propaganda victory in history, like C-ville X 100.

Remember what happened with the bikers at Twin Peaks in Waco?

[Disambiguator]

I think the expectation of a major false flag is almost a foregone conclusion. They conveniently occur during a big gun control push.

[Fraxinus]

I suspect there are still just enough old school yellow dog dems, that yes some of the people protesting their plans did vote for them. Other wise it is a combination of rats from NYC and Chicago voting for the same policies they supported before they moved to VA and voter fraud due to the somnolence of the VA republican party simply overwhelming the sane citizens of VA.

[Perseverando]

I just a search on the Virginia Legislative Information System, Bill Subject Index = “Weapons” and these appear to be current active Bills for 2020:

2020 SESSION
Weapons
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sbj+068

HB 72 Children; allowing access to firearms by children. recklessly leaving loaded, unsecured firearm.
HB 78 Firearms; purchase, possession, and transporting following certain convictions.
HB 161 Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required.
HB 162 Firearm-free zones designated by the Commonwealth or a locality; waiver of sovereign immunity.
HB 224 Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required.
SB 13 Capitol Square; possessing or transporting a weapon within Square, penalty.
SB 14 Trigger activators; prohibition, penalty.
SB 15 Weapons; carrying into building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, penalty.
SB 16 Assault firearms and certain firearm magazines; prohibiting sale, transport, etc., penalties.
SB 18 Firearms; criminal history record information checks, age requirement, penalty.
SB 70 Firearm transfers; criminal history record information check, penalty.
SB 71 Firearms; possession on school property.
SB 75 Minors; allowing access to firearms, penalty.
SB 76 Protective orders; possession of firearms, penalty.
SB 173 Stun weapons; prohibits possession on school property, exempts holder of concealed handgun permit.
SB 207 Retired sworn law-enforcement officers; purchase of service handguns or other weapons.
SB 240 Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk of injury to himself, etc., penalties.

And then there’s another high profile 2020 Bill, Paramilitary Activities, that 2nd Amendment defenders are concerned about:

SB 64 Paramilitary activities; penalty.
Introduced by: L. Louise Lucas | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=201&typ=bil&val=sb64

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Paramilitary activities; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of unlawful paramilitary activity if such person assembles with another person with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons by drilling, parading, or marching with any firearm, any explosive or incendiary device, or any components or combination thereof. Such unlawful paramilitary activity is punishable as a Class 5 felony.

FULL TEXT
11/21/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101207D pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
11/21/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101207D
11/21/19 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

[FrodoBaggins]

How soon will we see row upon row of gallows being constructed on the capital grounds?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“The UN doesn’t have a base in the US.”

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) (two offices in NYC)

CIFAL “International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders” (part of UNITAR) office in Atlanta.

International Military Education and Training (IMET). In December 2019, the Department of Defense had 5,181 foreign students from 153 countries for security training.

[Salvavida]

None of those are bases. Offices and classrooms do not a base make.

[SVTCobra03]

“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated” ― Thomas Paine, The Crisis