Posted on 01/07/2020 5:24:47 AM PST by oldvirginian
The following bill, profiled January 6, 2020, in the Virginia House of Delegates makes indoor shooting ranges not owned by government illegal to own and operate.
HOUSE BILL NO. 567
Offered January 8, 2020
Prefiled January 6, 2020
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 3 of Chapter 12 of Title 18.2 a section numbered 18.2-511.2, relating to indoor shooting ranges; prohibited in buildings not owned or leased by the Commonwealth or federal government; exceptions; civil penalty.
---------- Patron-- Helmer
---------- Committee Referral Pending
---------- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 3 of Chapter 12 of Title 18.2 a section numbered 18.2-511.2 as follows:
§ 18.2-511.2. Indoor shooting ranges; prohibited in private buildings; exceptions; penalty.
A. As used in this section, "indoor shooting range" means any fully enclosed or indoor area or facility designed for the use of rifles, shotguns, pistols, silhouettes, skeet, trap, or black powder or any other similar sport shooting.
B. It is unlawful to operate an indoor shooting range in any building not owned or leased by the Commonwealth or the federal government unless (i) fewer than 50 employees work in the building or (ii) (a) at least 90 percent of the users of the indoor shooting range are law-enforcement officers, as defined in § 9.1-101, or federal law-enforcement officers, (b) the indoor shooting range maintains a log of each user's name, phone number, address, and the law-enforcement agency where such user is employed, and (c) the indoor shooting range verifies each user's identity and address by requiring all users to present a government-issued photo-identification card.
C. Any person that violates the provisions of this section is subject to a civil penalty of not less than $1,000 nor more than $100,000 for the initial violation and $5,000 per day for each day of violation thereafter.
It isn’t designed to shut any ranges down. It’s about (b) getting the names addresses and phone numbers of the folks with guns.
They and liberals both and that tub of lard Moore as well.
“ Northam and his cabal intend to push this to the breaking point and a regulation like the proposed one would not be subject to a 2A court argument. “
Why would there be no second amendment argument?
Keep pushing, Virginia Socialists! Virginia Patriots will find a way in, around, under or THROUGH you! :)
Luckily I have a range of my own here on the farm, and we also have a very active one at the gun club about 5 miles away.
When the wind is blowing in the right direction I can hear the SOUND OF FREEDOM most of a Saturday afternoon. ;)
Agreed. I’ve never seen an indoor range with 1/2 of that number. So, as long as you have less than 50 then if it passes, which I doubt, most if not all private indoor ranges don’t have to read beyond B. (i)
They should have their citizenship stripped for treason then deported and dropped into some country like Communist China/N.K. with nothing but the clothes on their back. They deserve nothing less or more. This would be the alternative to them meeting Satan in person.
This is the tactic. No one will object to the law if it doesn't apply to them BUT the premise of the law will become accepted because of its existence. Then the loophole will be "tidied up" some time down the road.
Then you have to feed them, house them, amuse them.
Option B:... It's not as if they are Americans. They are professed enemies of the Constitution, and need to be eradicated.
A good way to keep track of all firearms owners. Back door resistration
Voters need to change that ASAP.
Seriously?
Virginia is at least for the next 2 years (House of Delegates elected every 2 years, 4 for everyone else), a marxist police state. The demoKKKrats control the entire General Assembly (House and Senate), The Governor, Lt Governor and Attorney General office, thus tyranny.
Bizzare
Y’all don’t seem to be getting their attention.
When one elects Democrats, they do what Democrats do. And the Democrats fully intend to control us. Until they slaughter us. The idiots they will continue to control and use for slave labor to support them. But rest assured that the Democrats fully intend to exterminate the White Race. Except them. And via the abortion and birth rate route, they are well on their way to accomplishing or attaining this goal.
“Will this actually affect any shooting range given this mile wide out ?!?”
If you are a firearms manufacturer it will shut down your test/research range, and does not NRA have a range in their building?
Not an attorney, but this bill would regulate businesses and not guns directly. It is a Democrat dodge.
A time for reckoning draws nigh.
5.56mm
If you are a VA resident there is an on line petition to recall Nortram. A rally is being planned for 20 Jan in Richmond to support 2nd Amendment rights.
They want to kill businesses and put people out of jobs because they want to further an agenda?
If I were a gun range owner I would put up a sign.
COME AND TAKE IT!
They are going full bore, aren’t they?
Dems will do what dems will do.
This is what we can expect should they gain control of the House and Senate and the Presidency.
Cute little secret... they actually didn't. If you total all the votes for all of the 100 VA State House and 40 Senate races, the GOP had about 31,000 more House votes, and about 35,000 more Senate votes (out of 2.3m votes cast). However, with the Democrats recent redistricting (read: gerrymandering), "somehow" this translated into majorities for the Dems in both. Interesting, no?
So STRANGE that CNN hasn't covered that story yet. Hmmm.
(VA Senate: 2018, GOP 21-19... 2019, DEM +2, to 21-19)
(VA House: 2018: GOP 51-49... 2019: DEM +6, to 55-45)
The VA House was DEM-led for all of the 20th Century, including leads of 97-3 twice... averaging 87.5-to-12.5 overall... and an average of 93.3-to-6.7 for 1900-1964). The VA House of Delegates went the GOP for the first time in 2000, and peaked at 67-32 in 2014-2016.
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