Mike
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http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-...on-shutting-down-obsolete-va-gun-check-system
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. . . gun rights supporters cheered when McDonnell came out in support of replacing Virginia’s notoriously slow fee-based gun purchase check system (“V-Check”) with the more or less instant and free National Instant Check System (NICS). . . .
But McDonnell, now all but openly running as Mitt Romney’s shadow Vice-Presidential candidate, may be back pedaling from his earlier promise to sign legislation repealing Virginia’s state based gun check system. At least that’s what Virginia gun rights experts like OpenCarry.org’s John Pierce of Bristol are thinking.
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“So why are Republican Senators now giving SB 612 such a chilly reception in the Senate Courts of Justice committee” asks Pierce? “I can’t believe the Republicans are doing this en masse without specific guidance from Governor McDonnell.”
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John Pierce warned that “if Virginia pours good money after bad into V-Check, and, back ground checks in Virginia don’t become truly ‘instant’ by the November election," gun owners are going to wonder whether a Romney-McDonnell administration would be “reliable” on Second Amendment rights.
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. . . gun rights supporters cheered when McDonnell came out in support of replacing Virginia’s notoriously slow fee-based gun purchase check system (“V-Check”) with the more or less instant and free National Instant Check System (NICS). . . .
But McDonnell, now all but openly running as Mitt Romney’s shadow Vice-Presidential candidate, may be back pedaling from his earlier promise to sign legislation repealing Virginia’s state based gun check system. At least that’s what Virginia gun rights experts like OpenCarry.org’s John Pierce of Bristol are thinking.
. . .
“So why are Republican Senators now giving SB 612 such a chilly reception in the Senate Courts of Justice committee” asks Pierce? “I can’t believe the Republicans are doing this en masse without specific guidance from Governor McDonnell.”
. . .
John Pierce warned that “if Virginia pours good money after bad into V-Check, and, back ground checks in Virginia don’t become truly ‘instant’ by the November election," gun owners are going to wonder whether a Romney-McDonnell administration would be “reliable” on Second Amendment rights.