Multiple Gun Control Bills Advance in Virginia

On Monday, January twenty sixth, the Senate Courts of Justice Committee superior a slate of gun management payments focusing on semi-automatic firearms, commonplace capability magazines, carry rights, house storage, and extra. Most regarding, a substitute to SB 749 was adopted, the invoice now bans all magazines above 10 rounds which can be at present owned by regulation abiding Virginians. It will immediately flip people into criminals for proudly owning most typical handguns, semi-auto rifles and shotguns. Furthermore, this listening to went ahead whereas a lot of Virginia was underneath a winter storm state of emergency, making it troublesome or not possible for a lot of gun house owners to securely journey to the Capitol to testify in individual. Most of those payments now transfer to the Senate Finance Committee.

The next payments had been reported from Senate Courts of Justice:

Senate Invoice 749 bans sure semi-automatic firearms, together with many semi-automatic rifles, pistols and shotguns, and arbitrarily limits journal capacities. With the elimination of the grandfather clause for magazines, anybody in possession of magazines that exceed the arbitrary restrict will turn into a prison in a single day. This invoice is an try and redefine and ban firearms which can be in frequent use by law-abiding residents—plain and easy gun confiscation by definition.
Senate Invoice 272 limits who can carry firearms at public establishments of upper studying.
Senate Invoice 348 creates necessary storage necessities for properties the place minors and/or prohibited individuals additionally reside.
Senate Invoice 312 prohibits carrying “assault firearms” in public locations, together with streets, sidewalks, and parks. Due to obscure definitions, SB 312 successfully criminalizes carrying any center-fire semi-automatic firearm within the Commonwealth.
Senate Invoice 323 ends the centuries-old observe of people constructing lawful firearms for private use with out authorities interference by prohibiting the manufacture of firearms with out serial numbers. Switch and possession of an unserialized or plastic firearm could be prohibited. This laws would additionally penalize people who lawfully bought unfinished frames and receivers earlier than the invoice’s efficient date.
Senate Invoice 496 locations additional restrictions on the flexibility for a law-abiding particular person to maintain a firearm of their automobile for self-defense.
Senate Invoice 115 jeopardizes hid handgun recognition and reciprocity agreements. This might affect the flexibility of Virginia’s Hid Handgun Allow holders to hold their firearms in different states as they journey.

In the meantime, the committee rejected Senate Invoice 78, a measure that will have elevated necessary minimal sentences for repeat firearm offenses, sending a transparent message that their precedence is limiting lawful gun house owners as an alternative of violent offenders.

Please keep tuned to the NRA-ILA web site and your inbox for updates as this legislative session progresses.

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