Virginia: Gun Ban Bill Defeated!

NRA ^ | Feb 17, 2020 | Staff

[11th_VA]

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.

House Bill 961 was a comprehensive ban on many commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, suppressors, and standard capacity magazines. The original bill sought to impose a licensing and registration scheme for citizens who wish to keep affected firearms they lawfully owned prior to the ban, with felony penalties for noncompliance. It also broadly banned any part that could be used to change a firearm into a banned configuration. While the House Public Safety Committee amended the bill to allow citizens to keep currently owned firearms and suppressors, there was no option for citizens to keep their lawfully acquired magazines with capacities greater than twelve rounds, forcing millions of Virginians to dispose of their property, become a criminal, or surrender them to the government.

Numerous other anti-gun bills are still in play this session. Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org and your email inbox for further updates on these bills and other issues threatening our Second Amendment rights in Virginia.

[Howie66]

No argument from me on that. I’m not getting any younger and I really don’t want to miss the party.

[redfreedom]

Well stated.

[apoliticalone]

There are some things I might be able to accept coming from the left.

Not open borders, not free speech and NEVER gun confiscation or control. They try to teach our most impressionable youth that free speech needs to be eliminated because of their claims about phony PC and hate speech too. They play word games and try to masquerade taking away our most precious freedoms such as self defense as “reducing gun violence”.