NRA HQ Range in Fairfax, VirginiaPosted on 01/09/2020 4:30:45 AM PST by marktwain
NRA HQ Range in Fairfax, Virginia
Virginia House Bill no. 567, prefiled on 6 January, 2020, and offered on 8 January, 2020, seems aimed particularly at the NRA headquarters range at 11250 Waples Mill Rd. in Fairfax, Virginia. HB 567 contains a number of provisions that single out the NRA HQ range from nearly all others.
Here are the provisions of the bill:
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
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Bill of Attainder
(This is the end of the piece.)
I’m sure that it feels fantastic to be a buffalo in the middle of a stampeding herd of your kin. A thousand tons of muscle, hooves and horns on the move, all thundering along together in a mighty gallop, shaking the very earth! Yes, that must feel very powerful. A thousand times more powerful than a few Indians waving blankets and setting small brush fires that you hardly notice from the middle of your galumphing herd.
Just make sure that you’re not being stampeded toward a cliff, by devious political operatives who are more clever and cold-hearted than you. Remember Charlottesville, and what happened at Twin Peaks. Please think long and hard about stampeding into Richmond for what might turn out to be the mother of all buffalo jumps.
Keep it smart, and keep it local. Be the Indian, not the buffalo.
RICHMOND: THE MOTHER OF ALL BUFFALO JUMPS
Free Republic thread / Jan 7, 2020
That sure was an awfully quick transition from “No one’s coming for your guns” to “We’re coming for your guns, your magazines, your ammunition, your ability to assemble in groups and train, your shooting ranges, your freedom, and for any cops or others who agree with you or oppose our efforts”.
I was wondering what the purpose of that oddly worded law could be, but I didn’t imagine this narrow a target. I think you’re right that this is an attack on America’s oldest and most important civil rights organization. The anti-gun left disgusts me.
Yep. Unconstitutional.
Adding “— —” for emphasis; looks like the determining factor is the number of employees.
Says i —or— ii(a),(b), and (c).
So if the indoor range has 49 employees, it’s ok.
From the proposed law:
“...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...
(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.
NRA Headquarters, of course!
I don't need a background check to start a political blog in Massachusetts. I don't need a license to exercise my 5th Amendment rights in Massachusetts.Yet here you basically have to know a politician (97% of whom are Rats) or a police chief to get a firearms license.
Rat politicians know that there's not a snowball's chance in hell of repealing the 2nd Amendment...or even modifying it...so they employ guerrilla tactics to render it null and void wherever they can.
Democrats are always so f-ing petty.
See my post
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3806740/posts?page=7#7
As I read the proposed law, the deciding factor is the number of employees.
And upon second perusal, it applies to ranges in govt buildings.
think louis xvi. he didn’t wear blackface but he lost his head.
I fully agree with your assessment. And I would like to add that these commie bastards are about to get freight trained by national events that are unfolding. I would suggest to sit back and let the inertia of those events overwhelm these crooks.
Never thought I’d see VA listed with those states. :)
One can truly never say never again :)
Just remember, that guy that no one knows? The one with the brand spanking new Nazi flag? This time beat the crap out of him. He’s a Fed.
“Please think long and hard about stampeding into Richmond for what might turn out to be the mother of all buffalo jumps. “
Good advice, but, this demonstration needs to happen with an overwhelming # of attendees. That said, it also MUST MUST MUST remain non-violent. If it were to turn violent we jumped off the cliff. I will be there, God willing and the creek don’t rise.
It’s not necessarily employees of the range, but any workers in the same structure. If there are other unrelated business offices in a building (or, say, a strip mall) that applies to the number of 50.
What if there are 49, but then one day one of the other companies hires one more person? Or a company spitefully adds a couple Chelsea Clintons to the payroll in name only in order to boot a range?
Shocking that they were lying the entire time about every single thing.
They aren’t going to stop until they are stopped.
I once asked that aunt...who was my "surrogate mother" (my Mom died when I was young) why she voted Rat *after* having just explained to her how much contempt the Rat Party has for Christian teachings and she replied "because they give me my Social Security".
To be fair she said that when she was in her 80s when many people are fearful of having enough to live on.
And my brother is a state government retiree...we don't talk politics AT ALL.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.