Virginia Democrats push controversial gun control bills through Senate committee

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Virginia Democrats push controversial gun control bills through Senate committee
by Spencer Neale
 | January 13, 2020 04:31 PM

Long lines filed outside the Virginia General Assembly and hundreds of NRA gun rights activists flooded the Capitol on the same day that the state's Democratic senators passed a number of gun control bills in a committee.

Every gun control bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, except the most controversial one. Democratic Sen. Dick Saslaw's proposed Senate Bill 16 prohibiting "any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, possessing, or transporting an assault firearm" was struck from the docket early in the morning.

Democrats in the state's House of Delegates will instead focus on House Bill 961, a slightly weaker bill with similar language, that would allow Virginians to keep their assault rifles if they register ownership with the Virginia State Police.

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[txradioguy]

Democratic Sen. Dick Saslaw's proposed Senate Bill 16 prohibiting "any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, possessing, or transporting an assault firearm" was struck from the docket early in the morning.

This one will be back.  Give it time.

hat would allow Virginians to keep their assault rifles if they register ownership with the Virginia State Police.

Registration = confiscation.  You'd think that given the uproar and number of sanctuary counties in the state the Dems would back away form this completely.

[Elderberry]

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB240

SB 240 Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk of injury to himself, etc., penalties.

Introduced by: George L. Barker

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties.

Creates a procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or any law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations district court judge or magistrate for an emergency substantial risk order to prohibit a person who poses a substantial risk of injury to himself or others from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm. If an emergency substantial risk order is issued, a judge or magistrate may issue a search warrant to remove firearms from such person.

An emergency substantial risk order shall expire on the fourteenth day following issuance of the order. The bill requires a court hearing in the circuit court for the jurisdiction where the order was issued within 14 days from issuance of an emergency substantial risk order to determine whether a substantial risk order should be issued. Seized firearms shall be retained by a law-enforcement agency for the duration of an emergency substantial risk order or a substantial risk order or, for a substantial risk order and with court approval, may be transferred to a third party 21 years of age or older chosen by the person from whom they were seized.

The bill allows the complainant of the original warrant to file a motion for a hearing to extend the substantial risk order prior to its expiration. The court may extend the substantial risk order for a period not longer than 180 days. The bill provides that persons who are subject to a substantial risk order, until such order has been dissolved by a court, are guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor for purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm; are disqualified from having a concealed handgun permit; and may not be employed by a licensed firearms dealer.

 The bill also provides that a person who transfers a firearm to a person he knows has been served with a warrant or who is the subject of a substantial risk order is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill creates a computerized substantial risk order registry for the entry of orders issued pursuant to provisions in the bill.

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With The overwhelming support for 2A sanctuaries, I don't see this ending well for the Dimmies come next election.They have woken a sleeping giant.