Thanks to Second Amendment supporters around the Commonwealth
ceaselessly voicing their opposition to a sweeping gun ban, the Senate
Judiciary Committee voted 10-5 to reject House Bill 961 on February 17th.
Bloomberg’s House majority in the General Assembly is not going to
deliver their most coveted agenda item to their billionaire master.
House Bill 961 was
a comprehensive ban on many commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms,
suppressors, and standard capacity magazines. The original bill sought
to impose a licensing and registration scheme for citizens who wish to
keep affected firearms they lawfully owned prior to the ban, with felony
penalties for noncompliance. It also broadly banned any part that could
be used to change a firearm into a banned configuration. While
the House Public Safety Committee amended the bill to allow citizens to
keep currently owned firearms and suppressors, there was no option for
citizens to keep their lawfully acquired magazines with capacities
greater than twelve rounds, forcing millions of Virginians to dispose of
their property, become a criminal, or surrender them to the government.
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