Related, from a VCDL Alert:
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1. ACTION ITEM: Senator Stuart leads anti-gun charge against pro-gun bill :-(
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With friends like these…
I was shocked when Senator Richard Stuart (King George, Prince William, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and Westmoreland) actually led the charge to kill a pro-gun bill in the Senate Courts of Justice!
There are enough anti-freedom votes on that committee without Senator Stuart helping them out.
He wasn’t the only bad vote, but he took the lead in killing the bill, and thus deserves extra scrutiny.
The bill was Senator Tom Garrett’s SB 368, which would have made Virginia gun laws more uniform by making it legal for someone with a CHP to have a loaded long gun in his vehicle anywhere in the Commonwealth. Currently some localities allow loaded long guns and some don’t. Yet, Senator Stuart led the charge to kill a bill seeking uniformity!
To justify his bad vote, Senator Stuart said to the committee, “I struggled to teach my children the responsible handling of firearms and that [Garrett's bill] flies in the face of everything I try to teach them, so…I move to PBI [kill the bill]…”
To which a visibly upset Senator Garrett said to Stuart, “The citizens of the Commonwealth are NOT your children.”
Ouch! Touche, Senator Garrett!
If you live in Senator Stuart’s district, you need to contact him to show your displeasure for his very bad vote and for leading the charge for more gun-control, of all things! Please be polite, but firm.
Senator Stuart’s phone number is 804-698-7528. His email is:
district28@senate.virginia.gov
Other bad votes on the bill include: Norment, Marsh, Howell, Lucas, Edwards, Puller, Obenshain, McDougle, McEachin, and Vogel.
If your Senator is anyone of the above, contact them and ask them why they are against making Virginia’s gun laws uniform. Without uniformity it is hard to drive from one place to another without being a good citizen part of the time and a criminal for the other part. Their vote is simply unacceptable! Again, be polite, but firm.
Finally, be sure to thank these three Senators for being the only ones on the committee with the guts to vote pro-liberty on SB 368: Stanley, Reeves, and, of course, Garrett.
To get the contact information for the above Senators, click here:
http://leg1.state.va.us/141/mbr/MBR.HTM