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Virginia Republicans dismiss gun safety bills and unwisely want to lift restrictions
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NRA-Friendly Lawmakers in Virginia General Assembly Killing Gun Safety Legislation Through Backroom Dealing
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Virginia Republicans dismiss gun safety bills and unwisely want to lift restrictions
Most people age 21 or older can openly carry a loaded handgun even without a permit, and in 2012 the state scrapped a law limiting handgun purchases by individuals to one a month, which worked for almost 20 years.
That’s still not enough for the pro-gun crowd in Richmond, which persists in trying to expand gun rights and widen loopholes at every opportunity. It’s not enough for Sen. Thomas A. Garrett Jr. (R-Louisa), who sponsored a bill that would allow people to carry concealed weapons on school property outside of normal school hours (when plenty of students still might be on the premises). Fortunately, that measure has stalled.
Other GOP-backed bills that seem likely to pass would allow holders of concealed handgun permits to openly carry loaded long-barreled weapons (negating local ordinances that may forbid it in the interest of safety) and grant concealed handgun permits that would never expire, thereby neutering the state’s ability, under the current five-year renewal process, to determine whether a gun owner had lost his or her sight or is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
Yeah, that's extreme!
But wait, Progressive Virginia thinks trickery is afoot:
NRA-Friendly Lawmakers in Virginia General Assembly Killing Gun Safety Legislation Through Backroom Dealing
Less than two weeks into the General Assembly session, Republican lawmakers have resorted to backroom dealings in order to kill a package of gun safety bills in an effort to avoid attracting attention from the media and public. This strategy comes on the heels of days of bad publicity regarding procedural snafus in the assembly.
The Virginia House of Delegates’ Militia, Police, and Public Safety Subcommittee #1 has called an emergency meeting today, immediately after the House adjourns in House room #2 in the Capitol, rather than in the General Assembly building where the committee regularly meets Thursday afternoons at 4 p.m.
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“These lawmakers appear to be tired of the pesky public watching them defeating such common-sense measures, so they have moved their tactics behind doors, in secret meetings, and through procedural gimmicks,” said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
In response to this unprecedented move by Subcommittee #1, Lori Haas, Virginia state director for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence said, “The committee has had ample time, even canceling meetings on Jan. 15 and 22, to hear these bills at regularly scheduled hearings. To call an emergency meeting for no apparent reason is purposefully leaving the public out of the conversation. What committee members really want is to only hear from the gun lobby, not those who are more concerned with the safety of Virginia families.
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