Legislative Update! Bills to be heard THIS Wednesday, Jan27

[OakRidgeStars]

VA-ALERT: Legislative Update! Bills to be heard THIS Wednesday, January 27!

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GOOD AND BAD BILLS TO BE HEARD IN SENATE COMMITTEE ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27

Short notice - if you can attend the Senate Courts of Justice committee on Wednesday, please do so as there are a ton of anti-gun bills being heard and also some critical pro-giun bills. The meeting starts 15 minutes after the adjournment of the Senate (probably around 2 PM) and is in Senate Room B. If you arrive early, you can watch the Senate Floor on large screen televisions in Senate Room B as you wait for the Senate to adjourn and the committee meeting to start.


Pro-gun bills:

SB 610, Senator Reeves and Vogel, SB 178, Senator Garrett, SB 616, Senator Chase, SB 713, Senator Hanger, and SB 764, Senator Suetterlein, all fix the reciprocity mess that the Attorney General and the State Police created. The preferred bill is SB 610 by Senator Reeves - the other bills should be rolled into his bill

SB 654, Senator Vogel, state to provide firearm training for victims of domestic violence

SB 677, Senator Chase, removes requirement for a second ID when purchasing a firearm

SB 715, Senator Edwards, allows a mechanism for a completely voluntary background check to be run at a gun show


Anti-gun bills:

SB 49, Senator Howell, SB 96, Senator Marsden, and SB 323, Senator Favola, protective-order gun-confiscation bill

SB 97, Senator Marsden, one gun a month

SB 138, Senator Favola, allows localities to prohibit gun stores within 1,000 feet of a school

SB 156, Senator Favola, disgruntled spouse or family member can deny a CHP

SB 184, Senator Marsden, magazines limited to 10 rounds

SB 214, Senator Favola, and SB 430, Senator Saslaw, requires firearm purchasers be screened against the Terrorist Screening Database

SB 220, Senator McEachin, Universal Background Checks

SB 260, Senator Surovell, get help with an addiction and lose your CHP

SB 263, Senator Surovell, CHP holders to be screened against the Terrorist Screening Database

SB 300, Senator Ebbin, adds additional crimes if an open carrier is intoxicated

SB 546, Senator Favola, takes away gun rights for certain MISDEMEANORS

SB 694, Senator Marsden, no loaded firearms on a road or street

SB 716, Senator Edwards, creates a state penalty if a firearms dealer doesn’t do a background check on purchasers. The bill is probably unconstitutional under the 5th Amendment as written and is not needed as federal law already covers this


PRO-GUN BILL TO BE HEARD IN HOUSE COMMITTEE ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27

The meeting starts 15 minutes after the adjournment of the House on the House Floor (probably around 2 PM).

HB 560, Delegate Lingamfelter, makes an important fix to the brandishing laws that protects gun owners from prosecutorial abuse



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[MarcSpaz]

SB 694 is insane!

If any person possesses a loaded firearm... in or across any road, or within the right-of-way thereof, or in a street of any city or town, he shall, for each offense, be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.

For purposes of determining state road right of way the boundary shall be 50 feet from the center line of the state roadway or the actual right of way whichever is greater.

This could include inside of buildings such as homes and businesses. More or less destroys open carry in VA.