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Incoming Virginia Gov: Banning Private Gun Sales a Priority for 2018
breitbart.com ^ | 1/10/2018 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 01/10/2018 10:36:07 AM PST by rktman

Incoming Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) indicates that banning private gun sales in the state will be a priority for 2018.

In other words, he will continue to pursue the gun controls that outgoing Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) pursued but failed to secure.

NBC Washington reports that Northam will be pushing “universal background checks for gun buyers.” This means private gun sales will be treated like retail sales, with a point-of-sale background checks required at time of purchase. Such a framework will require a law-abiding gun owner to seek out a government representative, a federal firearms license holder, and have a background check performed before he sells a gun to his neighbor, co-worker, lifelong friend, or acquaintance.

Other states that have outlawed private gun sales charge a fee for the required background checks. That fee effectively serves as a new tax on the gun sale or transfer, thereby driving the price of firearms up.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2018; 2a; banglist; congress; elections; gillespie; mcauliffe; midterms; northam; vageneralassembly; virginia
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To: rktman

Gun control is also the main priority behind the Democrat push just ahead for majorities in the houses of Congress this year. We’ve already seen a few votes, where Democrats piled right on against our Second Amendment. They simply didn’t have the majorities to do it. They hope to get majorities in Congress and replace the President in 2020.

RASMUSSEN POLL SHOCK: OPRAH 48% TRUMP 38%... (Drudge blurb)
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2018/oprah_vs_the_donald_and_the_winner_is

They’re going for the women’s vote, big time, and hoping to gain from Republican division between the West and the Midwest. [Immigration vs. Second Amendment as main issue, insurmountability of congressional stubbornness on immigration, West’s desire to blame Trump instead of members of Congress elected by them. They want the paradox of politicians like Schwartzeneggar and ejection of all Mexicans, too. Or more likely, both parties in western states are simply full of lefties.]


41 posted on 01/10/2018 11:47:00 AM PST by familyop ("...you're the son of a thousand fathers..." -Tuco, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly")
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Already been done in Delaware, about four or five years ago. Look it up in the Delaware Code (click here).

(Transfer between close kin or holders of CCDW excepted.)

42 posted on 01/10/2018 11:48:54 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: rktman

Regardless of the many laws passed against such behavior, many inner city folks tend to buy untraceable stolen weapons that can simply be tossed or even sold again after use. Another law won’t stop them from doing so.


43 posted on 01/10/2018 11:50:01 AM PST by familyop ("...you're the son of a thousand fathers..." -Tuco, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly")
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To: cyclotic

The only way to save VA is to get rid of 60% of the clot of federal government workers blocking the arteries of the body politic.


44 posted on 01/10/2018 11:51:20 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: rarestia

We were overrun by northeast liberals and illegal aliens.
The illegal aliens started arriving in large numbers shortly after W. was elected.


45 posted on 01/10/2018 11:52:41 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“The illegal aliens started arriving in large numbers shortly after W. was elected.”

Not a coincidence.


46 posted on 01/10/2018 11:54:07 AM PST by Pelham (all warfare is based on deception)
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To: Dustoff45

Bush League Republicans still control the VAGOP.
Their job has been to prevent us from electing anyone who would help in stopping the Cheap Labor Express.


47 posted on 01/10/2018 11:54:29 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rarestia
What the heck happened to Virginia?

Invasion and colonization by third world Democrat voters, both legal and illegal.

48 posted on 01/10/2018 11:55:46 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: rktman

Several states have already banned private firearms sales to various extents and passed other gun control laws to make way in judicial circles for legalizing marijuana. They can’t feasibly take firearms away from addicts, so little by little, they’re working towards outlawing possession of firearms for everyone. That’s the way they see it anyway, and judicial interests (judges, lawyers, police and many more) have monstrous influence over legislation.


49 posted on 01/10/2018 11:56:07 AM PST by familyop ("...you're the son of a thousand fathers..." -Tuco, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly")
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To: rktman

There were lots of native Virginians who voted for Northam because of his southern bona Fidel’s, rather than his politics.

I predict that if Northam tries to go after guns, he and the Democrats will go down in flames.


50 posted on 01/10/2018 11:56:37 AM PST by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: independentmind

Bona fides. I hate auto fill.


51 posted on 01/10/2018 11:57:59 AM PST by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: Regulator

More officers than enlisted lean to the left. It has to do with social policies in universities and what is taught in them. Same in administrative offices in Corporations, NGOs, etc.


52 posted on 01/10/2018 11:59:15 AM PST by familyop ("...you're the son of a thousand fathers..." -Tuco, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly")
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To: txrefugee

As I discovered yesterday, they clot the artery of the public roadways too.

I ended up leaving about 20 minutes too late and paid the price on the Beltway.


53 posted on 01/10/2018 12:02:02 PM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: bert

Oh, yes— have lots of friends who cross the border into no state income tax TN. Thus removing from VA the tax revenue of a functioning plant with a payroll. Don’t have a handle on Abingdon coal regions— have they improved with de-reg of coal. Lot’s of closed businesses. Great folks in SW VA.


54 posted on 01/10/2018 12:15:16 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: independentmind

might be closer. Thought it was unusual for Gillespie to have an ad supporting the Confederate monuments. How could a true Southern bona fides say he would take them down? There is so much heritage of families there, not dying out, and dating back to the Revolution.


55 posted on 01/10/2018 12:18:03 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: rarestia
What the heck happened to Virginia?

The biggest problem is the northern counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William were flooded with Third World people who were given citizenship and all vote for Communists. Those same counties also have a lot of voter fraud by the Democrats.

Also, way too many people from Maryland and DC moved down here and they brought their leftist voting habits with them. There are now so many of them in the northern counties they overrun all the good people in the rest of the state.

Here in Stafford County (just south of Prince William County and only 35 miles from DC) the leftists have almost taken over. When I was stationed in DC and bought a home here in 1992 there were about 50K residents in the county and it voted about 85% or more conservative. We now have about 150K residents and vote 51% conservative.

The only good thing left in my county is the last Democrat was voted off the County Board and replaced by my friend and neighbor, who is a staunch conservative.

56 posted on 01/10/2018 12:19:46 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Dustoff45
This goes all the way back to a primary where a not-so-conservative was allowed to advance to the fall election.

We have to stop voting for the moderate elites, they can not win elections.

The Virginia GOP is run by Crony Capitalists and I think half of them came over from the Dem party back in the 90s when they saw things were changing and they didn't want to leave the gravy train.

The election of Dave brat was great but I don't know how we can duplicate that win as the VaGOP amended many of their rules to make sure real conservatives like Brat couldn't ever win.

57 posted on 01/10/2018 12:23:44 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: OldMissileer

New York is much the same. Trump won 46 out of the 62 counties.


58 posted on 01/10/2018 12:24:10 PM PST by TallahasseeConservative
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To: independentmind

I thought bona Fidel’s was awesome!


59 posted on 01/10/2018 12:27:06 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: John S Mosby

There are still a lot of folks in Virginia that think belonging to the FFA is a big deal, and that anyone without at least a few generations of Virginians preceding them is an outsider.

I used to work with a woman who thought that her FFA credentials were a job qualification.


60 posted on 01/10/2018 12:35:28 PM PST by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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