Breaking News Virginia Senate Committee Kills Gun Ban for 2020, Kicks Bill to 2021 Posted on 02/22/2020 4:56:40 AM PST by marktwain
Breaking News Virginia Senate Committee Kills Gun Ban for 2020, Kicks Bill to 2021
A controversial gun ban bill, HB 961, has been defeated in the Virginia Senate Judicial Committee. The defeat comes in the form of a decision to postpone the bill to 2021. The committee also voted to send a letter to the crime commission, asking them to study the bill. The parliamentary maneuvers amount to killing the bill. From wric.com:
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Senate Judiciary Committee continued HB961, also known as the assault weapons ban, to the 2021 session.
The bill will be much harder to pass in 2021. Virginia has its state legislative elections in odd-numbered years. In 2021, all 100 of the House of Delegates offices will be up for re-election. The House of Delegates is currently controlled by the Democrat Party, with 55 members. The Republicans are represented in the House with 45 members.
The NRA attributes the victory for the Second Amendment supporter to the intense opposition to the bill voiced by tens of thousands of activists. Over 22,000 activists showed up in January, at the Capitol, on Lobby day, to show intense and widespread opposition to infringements on the right to keep and bear arms. From the nraila.org:
Thanks to Second Amendment supporters around the Commonwealth ceaselessly voicing their opposition to a sweeping gun ban, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-5 to reject House Bill 961 on February 17th. Bloomberg’s House majority in the General Assembly is not going to deliver their most coveted agenda item to their billionaire master.
91 of 95 counties in Virginia have declared themselves to be Second Amendment sanctuaries.
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Strategic from on high IMO. If they were to ram this down before the election they might lose Virginia in the general. This way if Trump loses they do it next year and feel vindicated, if Trump wins they do it anyway to spite everyone.
Leftist criminals (i.e. democrats) play the long game. They expect us to go back to our lives and think we have won, all the while they plan to pass this bill in a year.
democrats really are horrible people...yes, all of them.
JoMa
What? Show some T______ fortitude. Stop wimping out. Just go for it.
Communists, like Bern and Mini-Mike, are saddened. Hey, mini-Mike Bloomturd, gun owners are organized...we will fight you Communists!!
Watch out VA! They might try what California did.
Shelve an unpopular AW bill.
Release mentally ill Pat Purdy from an insane asylum, allow them to legally buy guns.
Shot up the Stockton School yard killing students and himself.
Pull out the shelved bill and pass it so fast no opposition can be made against it.
“...he defeat comes in the form of a decision to postpone the bill to 2021....”
If it’s just postponed, it’s not a defeat; just a temporary speed bump.
Shoving it in a filing cabinet to try and review it when they’re stronger.
That party needs to be crushed.
Postponing the bill to 2021 effectively kills it.
The Virginia legislative elections are in 2021.
“...Virginia legislative elections are in 2021.”
Understood; but how many of their seats are vulnerable, versus OUR side’s seats?
They’re probably just waiting until they steal/fraud more seats to have a “mandate”, as the dems love to say.
Say what we will about the bastards, but they think ahead.
I hope I’m wrong, though.
--and they never quit , no matter what --for 65 years , I've been watching them keep at it--
We only need 1 more Supreme to permanently change all these attempts.
My bet is that if we can get Trump re-elected in 2020, he outlives Ginsberg and Breyer. Maybe Sotomayor also.
If the Supremes say say “2A” and “strict scrutiny” we will have a permanent win.
California,
A sleep at the
Wheel.
“...they never quit ,...”
Neither will we, brother.
Neither will we.
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