VCDL Action Item - Nat Park Carry - HOT -

[Moccasin]

Here is the breakdown on how VA's representatives voted on the ammendment part of the bill. The House was allowed to vote on the bill and the ammendment seperately

Virginia
Yea VA-1 Wittman, Rob [R]
Yea VA-2 Nye, Glenn [D]
Nay VA-3 Scott, Robert [D]
Yea VA-4 Forbes, James [R]
Yea VA-5 Perriello, Thomas [D]
Yea VA-6 Goodlatte, Robert [R]
Yea VA-7 Cantor, Eric [R]
Nay VA-8 Moran, James [D]
Yea VA-9 Boucher, Frederick [D]
Yea VA-10 Wolf, Frank [R]
Nay VA-11 Connolly, Gerald [D]

[allingeneral]

and here's the latest VCDL report on National Park Carry - 5/20/09

The National Park Carry amendment has passed the House just now and
becomes part of the Credit Card bill!

The bill is headed to the President's desk and should be signed by
Monday. (A Presidential spokesman said today that the President WOULD
sign the bill, even if it had the National Parks Carry provision.)

IMPORTANT NOTE: The National Park carry provision won't become
effective until **9 months** after the President signs the Credit Card
bill. That means it will be effective sometime in February of 2010.

Hopefully the judicial order blocking the current National Park
regulation that allows carry in National Parks will be overturned
soon. That way we can start carrying in National Parks sooner than
February. There is a good possibility that such a thing will happen.

I will keep you posted as National Park Carry progresses and will let
you know when you can start carrying in National Parks again.

[Moccasin]

and here's the latest VCDL report on National Park Carry - 5/20/09

IMPORTANT NOTE: The National Park carry provision won't become
effective until **9 months** after the President signs the Credit Card
bill. That means it will be effective sometime in February of 2010.

So much for carrying in the Okefenokee while I'm in Florida next week. That's not too bad though, unload and case the gun then put it in the trunk. Hopefully the alligators will get all the bad guys. We can stay in the car to keep away from the alligators, and the deer flies. I don't know which is worse.

[OakRidgeStars]

The bipartisan support needed to push this through is encouraging. As gun ownership increases, so will the support for gun rights. This is the kind of good news we could all use right now.

[Bob]

It is good news, we will see what happens now, it's never over until it's over.

I'm happy to see that Perriello voted for it, I know if Virgil Goode was still in office he would be a strong supporter. He was a good man for this district. I don't know much about Perriello but maybe all those letters and e-mails worked.