VA-ALERT: 3 more pro-gun bills filed!

[OakRidgeStars]

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1. Three more pro-gun bills
2. The REAL agenda for Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns

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1. Three more pro-gun bills
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Three more pre-filed pro-gun bills were introduced today.

VCDL STRONGLY supports the following bills:

HB 69, Delegate Carrico (R - Galax), "Virginia Firearms Freedom Act"
bill put in for the Virginia Campaign for Liberty (Tea Party group)
declares that the Federal Government has no jurisdiction over firearms
that are made in Virginia and sold in Virginia. The Federal
Government has been overstepping its Constitutional powers for years
and this will help put an end to some of those encroachments.

HB 72, Delegate Carrico (R - Galax), reduces the penalty for a firearm
carried on K-12 property from a class 6 felony to a class 1
misdemeanor UNLESS the gun is intended to be used, or is used in a
crime, in which case the penalty is still a class 6 felony. If the
gun is unlawfully possessed and is discharged on K-12 property, there
is a mandatory five-year prison term. This protects someone who means
no harm, but has inadvertently carried a gun onto school property from
having their life destroyed by a felony conviction. This bill was put
in for VCDL.

HB 79, Delegate Lee Ware (R - Powhatan/Chesterfield), closes the
"Chatham Star Tribune" loophole by preventing Circuit Court Clerks
from releasing CHP applicant information to anyone except police in
the line of duty. The Chatham Star Tribune continues to print
information on concealed handgun permit holders and this will bring an
end to such abuse. This bill was put in for VCDL.

This is just an FYI at this point, as the session won't be starting
until January 13th.

More gun bills will be introduced in the coming days and weeks and I
will keep you posted.


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2. The REAL agenda for Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG)
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The Snowflakes In Hell blog site has gotten a copy of MAIG's secret
agenda that Bloomberg was trying to keep out of public view. You can
download the actual document from the site, as well as read a summary.

No surprises here. It is just what VCDL has been warning about - it
has everything from new gun bans to another massive layer of laws and
bureaucracies to make it harder and harder to buy a gun. Most of it
is to be done without involving Congress by using the administrative
and regulatory powers of the BATFE.

Thanks to William Tansill for the link:

http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2009/12 ... blueprint/


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[GS78]

good post. Thanks

[zephyp]

I read the MAIG. Can someone please explain what an illegal gun is? I'm clueless.

[USMCGunner]

RE: HB 72

I was under the impression from The Virginia Gun Owner's Guide that the restriction has already been lifted. More specifically, the previous letter of the law considered it illeagal to simply have a gun within any "Gun Free" school zone and the funes/penalties were far higher than any other restricted area. However, after some good lobbying, it was realized this infringes on the legal carrier who is just picking their kid up. It takes away their ability to protection them selves and their children to and from the schoool.

Is my copy of VGOG out of date? More info please?

Thanks

[OakRidgeStars]

RE: HB 72
I was under the impression from The Virginia Gun Owner's Guide that the restriction has already been lifted. More specifically, the previous letter of the law considered it illeagal to simply have a gun within any "Gun Free" school zone and the funes/penalties were far higher than any other restricted area. However, after some good lobbying, it was realized this infringes on the legal carrier who is just picking their kid up. It takes away their ability to protection them selves and their children to and from the schoool.

Is my copy of VGOG out of date? More info please?
Thanks

Nothing has been changed yet. HB72 will reduce the penalty for an "accidental carry" on to school property. The penalties for someone with malicious intent will stay the same. This is a good bill that we should all support.

[wally626]

What was changed previously was that a concealed handgun permit holder could carry in the parking lot while in his car or leave the gun locked in the car while in the school, the law for actually carrying in the school building has not changed.