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VA-ALERT: URGENT: Gov's anti-gun amendments considered on Thursday!

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Governor McAuliffe has made a suggested amendment to HB 962, Delegate Cline’s bill that clarifies that a person without a CHP can have a loaded handgun in a CLOSED compartment or container in a vehicle or vessel. The Governor's amendment would move Virginia backwards, requiring such compartment or container be LOCKED, making the handgun inside a whole lot less useful.

The decision on whether the House will accept or reject that amendment will come tomorrow, Thursday, March 6, after 11 AM.

We need to make sure our legislators hear from all of us on this, INCLUDING those of you whose Delegate is a Democrat.

As of 9 PM on Wednesday, 2,790 of you have sent the prewritten message provided by VCDL. We need the rest of you to do your part.

If you have NOT yet sent the pre-written email urging your Delegate to REJECT the Governor’s Amendment to HB 962, please do so now. Here is the link - it will take less than 30 SECONDS to send the message:

http://tinyurl.com/lhgp48y

Let’s not take a step backwards by being complacent.



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This is what I sent to 5 delegates on my contact list:
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Gentlemen:

I write to urge that you please REJECT the Governor’s Amendment to HB 962. It is, in my opinion, in direct contravention of the clear legislative intent as well as subsequent judicial interpretation. He has perverted a clarifying measure into an odious erosion of our Second Amendment rights. If this is his idea of “common sense gun control” may God help the Commonwealth.

It just occurred to me when I sent a toned-down version to a legislator that's been working closely with TMac that this amendment will operate to set a trap for the uniformed because it will operate to reverse what has been permissible under the statute as currently written and interpreted. Nasty.

I did this a couple of days ago when the alert first came out.


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Thanks everyone for helping out here and I hope they will listen and see this for what it is and vote against the ammendment.