VCDL:
Here are the gun-control bills that are coming up on Monday, January 13, at 8 am in the Senate Judiciary:
S.B. 12 (Universal Background Checks)
Patron: Saslaw
Firearm transfers; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm transfer and requires the Department of State Police to establish a process for transferors of firearms to obtain such a check from licensed firearms dealers. A transferor who fails to obtain a required background check and sells the firearm to another person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill exempts transfers (i) between immediate family members; (ii) that occur by operation of law; (iii) by the executor or administrator of an estate or by the trustee of a testamentary trust; (iv) at firearms shows in accordance with law; (v) that are part of a buyback or give-back program; (vi) of antique firearms; (vii) that occur at a shooting range, shooting gallery, or any other area designed for the purpose of target shooting or for use during target practice, a firearms safety or training course or class, a shooting competition, or any similar lawful activity; or (viii) that are temporary transfers that (a) occur within the continuous presence of the owner of the firearm or (b) are necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm. The bill removes the provision that makes background checks of prospective purchasers or transferees at firearms shows voluntary.
Patron: Saslaw (One handgun a month)
Purchase of handguns; limitation on handgun purchases; penalty. Prohibits any person who is not a licensed firearms dealer from purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period and establishes such an offense as a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill exempts from this provision (i) persons who have been issued a certificate by the Department of State Police under certain circumstances and with an enhanced background check, (ii) law-enforcement agencies and officers, (iii) state and local correctional facilities, (iv) licensed private security companies, (v) persons who hold a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit, (vi) persons whose handgun has been stolen or irretrievably lost or who are trading in a handgun, (vii) purchases of handguns in a private sale, and (viii) purchases of antique firearms.
Patron: Surovell (bans guns for parades, marches, etc.)
Control of firearms by localities; permitted events. Authorizes any locality by ordinance to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in a public space during a permitted event or an event that would otherwise require a permit. The bill contains technical amendments.
Patron: Locke (One handgun a month)
Purchase of handguns; limitation on handgun purchases; penalty. Prohibits any person who is not a licensed firearms dealer from purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period and establishes such an offense as a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill exempts from this provision (i) persons who have been issued a certificate by the Department of State Police under certain circumstances and with an enhanced background check, (ii) law-enforcement agencies and officers, (iii) state and local correctional facilities, (iv) licensed private security companies, (v) persons who hold a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit, (vi) persons whose handgun has been stolen or irretrievably lost or who are trading in a handgun, (vii) purchases of handguns in a private sale, and (viii) purchases of antique firearms.
The rest is here
h/t PHenry.
All of them aimed only at law abiding citizens, nothing at all to affect the criminal’s current firearms ownership and possession status.
Hey, Virgina…..take a moment to read the Second Amendment in the Constitution of the United States of America.
If you have trouble in understanding it’s simplistic designation then take a flying phuck on a rolling donut and get the hell out of legislating laws to the rest of us.
The people in VA. have been set up
like bowling pins.1 mistake and DOWN
you go…
I never understood a law as stupid as one handgun a month. OK. Sit tight for 12 months. Then I will blow you to smithereens with one to twelve weapons.
Red flag laws are the ones that scare me
A crazy person with whom you have a disagreement can run to law enforcement to make an unsubstantiated case that you are crazy. Allowing law enforcement to confiscate your weapons without due process.
You are guilty until you can prove your innocence.
That’s not the America I know.
A good read. Be sure and read the comments. Pretty lively debate.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/comments-open-seven-and-a-wake-up/
Virginia. For sale and bought by a lefty billionaire
for a cheap couple of million.
This is just the tip of the iceberg from these loons. Preventing assembly of groups to train, wearing of anything “tactical”, and the bans of everything and registration will quickly follow. Elimination of online training for CHP is another. They are trying to get it all in before Lobby Day on the 20th.
It’s all about disarming the rural public. My wife just got her CHP. She is so proud! We are a “shall issue state” now. I’m sure they will try to make it “may issue”.
Talked to a local LEO, he was most concerned about red flag too. He implied the rest will not be enforced unless they get a court order.
They’re just taking a potshot to see if they can get away with it.
Good thing someone comes up for reelection every year. Problem is the people that don’t vote, or think a Democrat has their best interests in mind.
I’m still not worried about Lobby Day. Similar things were said about the first Richmond Tea Party. Nothing happened. I’m still going.
I’m sure Bloomberg will bus in a bunch of Long Island activists and Pantifa to try and start something like Charlottesville. If the VCDL can keep cool heads, we will get through it, and as usual make the loons look stupid.
Our problem in Virginia is the neo carpetbaggers that fled their northern shitholes and brought their stupidity with them. These people have an IQ deficiency, not understanding that they can buy twice the house they had for half the money. There’s a reason for that. It’s called conservatism.
Conservatism also brings forth law and order. Safe places.
Hey man, I fled a northern shithole and brought my area a very high IQ. 😉 I fled because I saw the same shit coming there long ago. Thought I was safe. 😃
Little did I realize the state I lived in as a kid as well had a majority of people that get by on the backs of those who bring it.
How about not enforcing it until the High court rules.
Dude. I fled Massachusetts with my IQ in tact.
Actually, I was apolitical when I got there in 1990.
Those idiots forced me to chose sides.
I stayed one extra day to vote against Ted Kennedy for Senator. Sadly, I didn’t know much about his challenger.
Fucking Mitt Romney.
I’m pretty sure he would have sucked less than Kennedy.
Maybe.
OK. Probably not.
If it’s CIVIL WAR they want, well they’re getting close to starting one those commie bastards want to turn OUR COUNTRY into another third world shithole where you can’t defend yourself. And it is really pissing off the people that immigrated here (LEGALLY) to get away from that commie shit! I’m afraid we are getting closer to a civil war than we know.
@ PHenry,
They all scare me.
I too will be at Lobby Day.
The neo-carpetbaggers did NOT flee…. They spread like a virus…
Fuckign mittens romney indeed…. Is that the classic “lesser of two evils”?
“The first stage in the corruption of morals is the banishment of truth …”
Michel de Montaigne
Take it easy, Francis
These Democrats are overreaching and they’re making more Republicans by the day. This ship will correct course, but it’s a big vessel and corrective action cannot be achieved until the next state election in 2021.
In the meantime….see you in court.
Always be on the lookout for phony agitators or gummint shills that post inflammatory stuff on websites. Just sayin’. We know who the good people are.
The one-handgun-a-month law was live when I got here, it was repealed. Get a CHP, NOW. Exercise those hands so you can fill out ballots in 2021, and we won’t have this issue. ☺
PHenry
Honest question. How did Virginia get into this spot in the first place. Bloomerbergs money is no excuse. Did red neck gun nuts decided to sit out another election? That problem is not unique to Virginia.
The first shots of the next civil war will be in Virginia.
The Constitution: Supremacy. Quotes. “All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.”. “Every law consistent with the Constitution will have been made in pursuance of the powers granted by it. Every usurpation or law repugnant to it cannot have been made in pursuance of its powers.
Funny how the left is always pushing the legality of things like taxation and abortion, but glibly forget about things like Marbury vs Madison.
Which tells me SCOTUS hasn’t been doing THEIR job, either.
These being any kind of “safety laws” is ridiculous on the face of it.
These are specifically designed to make any offender a prohibited person, under the ‘law’, where firearms are concerned – that’s ALL they’re good for.