This week brought good news for Virginia gun owners.
Yesterday the Virginia Senate passed SB 1035, patroned by Senator Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. (R - Mt. Solon), to repeal the hated restaurant ban. A matching bill, HB 1821 patroned by Delegate Joseph P. Johnson, Jr. (D – Abingdon), is pending action by the House of Delegates. Meanwhile New Mexico's House Business & Industry Committee unanimously recommended a bill to decriminalize gun carry in many or most restaurants serving alcohol, and a similar bill will be also considered by the Tennessee legislature this year. [See previous report.]
And today the Virginia Senate rejected SB 1257 patroned by Senator Henry Marsh (D – Richmond) and amended by Senator Creigh Deed (D – Bath County) to ban most private sales of guns at gun shows. Bill backers like Senator Janet Howell (D – Fairfax County) disingenuously blamed gun shows for the 2006 Virginia Tech murders and called private sales at gun shows not just a “loophole” but “a gaping hole.”
Senator Janet Howell (D - Fairfax County)
Sorry Senator. The people's freedom of contract in guns is not a loophole – it’s the public policy of Virginia and most states. And freedom’s no loophole. [See previous report.]
View of The Nation's Gun Show at the Dulles Expo Center in Fairfax County, VA
Comments
Figures that those anti-freedom "representatives" who voted for the bill would try to further restrict law abiding citizens from doing things that don't break the law. Shocking. Good article Mike!
Excellent article.
Anybody crazy enough to walk around with a concealed gun shouldn't be allowed to carry it. Keep your guns, but keep them at home.
I was at a gas station when a group of rough looking men on motorcycles started harassing me and my girlfriend probably because they picked us out as being weak. They were right, compared to them. One guy pulled out a big kbar style knife and told me he was going to 'gut' me, and called me a n****r lover because I had an Obama shirt on. He started approaching me, when a man came from the other side of the station. He had a pistol in his hand and told the group they'd be better off just leaving us alone. Needless to say, they took off pretty quick. That guy saved us from a grave situation. At the very least those bikers were going to inflict severe bodily harm. I'm thankful people carry guns.
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