VA lawmakers pass 7 new gun control bills in 90 minutes

[Elderberry]

American Military News by Ryan Morgan  January 31, 2020

A series of new gun control bills in Virginia cleared key votes on Thursday, including expanded background checks and “red flag” protective orders, among other measures.

In total, seven new gun control bills passed in the Virginia House of Delegates, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Virginia Senate has passed their own versions of several of those same bills and the two chambers are expected to reconcile the individual differences of the bills before sending them to Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam to sign and enact.

Democratic lawmakers, exercising their newly won legislative majorities, pushed through all seven measures in under 90 minutes. The votes came just over a week after an estimated 22,000 gun rights activists protested in Richmond in opposition to the newly proposed gun laws.

According to the Washington Post, lawmakers voted on party lines to pass measures that would:
•   Extend background checks to currently exempted private gun sales.
•   Require gun owners to report the loss of a firearm within 24 hours.
•   Create an extreme risk protective order, also known as a “red flag” order, which allows law enforcement to temporarily seize firearms from otherwise lawful owners accused of presenting a risk of harm to themselves or others.
•   Return to a pre-2012 policy, limiting the number of handguns allowed for an individual to purchase to one per month.
•   Increase the restrictions barring a person to access a firearm while subject to a protective order.
•   Extend the power to local governments to create additional gun control measures on the community level.
•   Make it a felony to leave a firearm accessible to anyone under the age of 18, up from the current age of 14.

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[Smokin Joe]

Wow. Think of all the new criminals they have created, and the huge number of 14-18 year olds who will be left defenseless because of this bill. Your babysitter won't be able to use your gun to defend your children.

(I find the felony for access to firearms especially onerous. We were taught safe firearms handling from an early age, first shooting at 5. I had been hunting since 9, harvested my first deer at 11.)

REAL CRIMINALS couldn't give a rabid rat's patoot what those totalitarian morons in Richmond are doing.
Not one of them will be stopped by any of this.