Posted on 01/23/2008 6:25:22 PM PST by P8riot
Senator Marsh's attempt to strip away the private sales of guns at gun shows was crushed in the Senate Courts of Justice committee this afternoon when SB 109 was defeated!
Senator Deeds offered an amendment that would have exempted concealed handgun permit holders and would have exempted parking lots that weren't part of the leased property for the gun show. That amendment still left huge problems and none of the gun organizations supported his amendment.
Senator Marsh was madder than a wet hen when he realized that his bill was dead for the year.
(Excerpt) Read more at 2.vcdl.org ...
Virginia is for Gun Lovers
ping
Ken Stolle should run for Governor.
I know that.
Didn’t mean to imply you didn’t, just weighing in my 2 cents.
Didn’t mean to imply you didn’t, just weighing in my 2 cents.
No problem. Just used to recoiling from folks who take me to task occasionally for using “incorrect terminology.”
Like a non-binding resolution...
I read the “vageneralassembly” keyword incorrectly.
Great news. Hope is alive and well in Virginia tonight.
Congrats!
The price of liberty is indeed eternal vigilance
What bothers me most about the gun-grabbers is that they are trying to limit my rights to buy and sell private merchandise. They need to divorce themselves from the fact that I may or may not be selling a gun at a gun show. What is a gun, after all? It is a piece of metal with lots of little metal bits inside of it that performs a mechanical operation when I squeeze one part of it. What business is it of anyone else’s what I do with the pieces of metal I buy from other people?
The fact that I buy my metal from other individuals at a gun show should have nothing to do with the law either. What is a gun show? It is a congregation of buyers and sellers who all decided it would be easier for everyone involved if they just gathered in one place rather than at a bunch of stores spread out accross an entire state. Why should I not be able to buy something from an individual at a gun show? Would it be different if I bought it from him at his house? What if we met on a street corner? I think the gun-grabbers should be ENCOURAGING the buying and selling at gun shows because all the gun shows I have ever been to have been far safer for everyone involved than, say, meeting a guy in a back alley with a lot of cash on my person. How many muggings take place at gun shows? How many robberies have there been? The shows that I go to tend to have not only their own security, but also a police presence at the front door.
So basically what this legislation has failed to do is this: it has failed to limit the rights of people to buy and sell what they wish; it has failed to stop people from freely and peacefully assembling together; and it has failed to make private gun transactions more dangerous by failing to force them into dark alleys and peoples’ basements.
Thank god it failed.
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