UPDATE: Circuit Court Judge Joi Taylor has denied the VCDL’s request for an injunction to block Governor Northam’s emergency gun ban declaration. Judge Taylor based her denial on the Heller decision’s ruling that gun rights are not unlimited and that prohibitions of firearms in “sensitive places such as schools or government buildings” is reasonable. #BREAKING: … Read more
By Michael Kunzelman and Mike Balsamo, AP FBI agents on Thursday arrested a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist and two other men who are linked to a violent white supremacist group and were believed to be heading to a pro-gun rally next week in Virginia’s capital. The three men are members of The Base and were arrested … Read more
By John Stokes If you want to see first-hand how America could conceivably slip back into the kind of political violence we saw in the 1970’s, then you should take a look at what’s currently unfolding in Virginia. It’s one of the best case studies in recent years of how social-media-fueled rumors, changing demographics, the … Read more
On Friday, the now Democrat-controlled Virginia Legislature reversed a decades-old policy and banned citizens from carrying firearms in the capitol and legislative office buildings. Now, as we get closer to Monday’s VCDL Lobby Day event on the capitol grounds in Richmond — which is expected to draw thousands of gun rights supporters — the Associated … Read more
Just kidding! The above photo is from a Moms Demand Action event in Florida (note the palm trees). Here’s the actual turnout for yesterday’s Virginia MDA lobby day: Look at them all. Almost two dozen! I think I’ve seen more people waiting to be seated at Denny’s on a Tuesday afternoon. Here the teeming throng … Read more
By Jeff Hulbert Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has issued an official advisory opinion declaring that any and all new gun laws passed by the General Assembly must be enforced—despite Herring once declining to defend a law in court that he believed was invalid. Herring’s opinion came in the form of a written response to … Read more
By Jeff Hulbert Virginia Democrats, humiliated by a Second Amendment sanctuary movement sweeping the Old Dominion, are now looking to retaliate against gun owners who openly carry their sidearms into the state capitol complex. Virginia is one of the few states in America where citizens can enter the Capitol building to criticize anti-gun legislators while … Read more
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