Carrying "High capacity" magazines in Virginia

[allingeneral]

Reference: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504 ... 18.2-287.4

§ 18.2-287.4. Carrying loaded firearms in public areas prohibited; penalty.

It shall be unlawful for any person to carry a loaded (a) semi-automatic center-fire rifle or pistol that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material and is equipped at the time of the offense with a magazine that will hold more than 20 rounds of ammunition or designed by the manufacturer to accommodate a silencer or equipped with a folding stock or (b) shotgun with a magazine that will hold more than seven rounds of the longest ammunition for which it is chambered on or about his person on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, public right-of-way, or in any public park or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public in the Cities of Alexandria, Chesapeake, Fairfax, Falls Church, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, or Virginia Beach or in the Counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Henrico, Loudoun, or Prince William.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to law-enforcement officers, licensed security guards, military personnel in the performance of their lawful duties, or any person having a valid concealed handgun permit or to any person actually engaged in lawful hunting or lawful recreational shooting activities at an established shooting range or shooting contest. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

The exemptions set forth in § 18.2-308 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the provisions of this section.

[allingeneral]

The moral of this story - get your CHP and you never have to worry about it!

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[MarcSpaz]

Yes Sir! A few minutes of your time and a few dollars and you are good to go.

To borrow a phrase... you responsibility to be ready for the fight never ends.

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[0ne5hot]

Or you could just avoid those communist communes and just stay in 'Merica

[SHMIV]

I wonder why the Commonwealth picked those specific localities?

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[MarcSpaz]

Because those areas are grossly overrun with bleeding heart liberals who hate America and they have a voting majority due to pure numbers.

Rather than messing up the whole state by either passing unconstitutional gun laws or losing seats to the libs during elections for doing nothing... the Conservative controlled house decided to let the libs have their little sandbox.

I mean, what's the big deal anyway? We all know the guy with nine 20 round mags is way less dangerous than the guy with six 30 round mags.

Did I ever show you this when I was trying to make sense of the NY Safe Act? Great example of Lib, socialist thinking.

[SHMIV]

Newport News has never struck me as a hot bed of Liberalism. Nor has Chesapeake.

On the other hand, I have met a large number of conservative minded folk in the Hampton Roads area that felt that voting was a pointless waste of time.

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[MarcSpaz]

That is what creates the problems. For some reason the Left base rolls out by the masses, but it seems like the Right is not as well motivated.

I wish there was some magic solution to get people to vote. When we have 310 million people in the US and only 120 million vote. If you split the difference on a close race, that means roughly 100% of the people will live by the ideals of only 18% of the population. When that happens, you get nonsense laws like the one Rick posted... and a POTUS who runs a country into the ground.

[SHMIV]

I think that a lot of people are short on time. Between work, various activities for the kids, maintaining home and vehicles etc., it becomes hard to care about what happens outside of your own little bubble. And, this is something that's more apt to affect conservative folk, as liberal folk tend to be less busy with productive things.

Also, liberals will congregate around a single issue, while conservative folks will take many issues into consideration.

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[thekinetic]

Technically speaking the kel-tec ksg while it holds a total of 12 rounds, each tube holds only 6. Since each tube is independent needing to be switched between, making them seperate magazines (by their dumb definitons), wouldn't it make it legal since it does not have a folding stock?

But I must also say my lever action 30-30 laughs at their idiotic rules! There are always exceptions and loopholes. And I regularly carry my m&p whose magazine carries a grand total of 17 rounds, for protection mostly but also because it pushes the boundary of their silly law. But wait there's more, the law doesn't state how many guns you can carry. So I guess I'm free to carry my .357 revolver as well. In fact I could carry all my guns and still not be breaking that law because none of them hold more than 20 rounds. Not that I would.

These laws really are stupid! But yeah getting a CHP would be better and highly recommended.

[firstcavapache64]

My question about this would be even though you have your CHP which satisfies the law referenced above wouldn't you still be violating the law in many of the counties that have county statutes that say you can't carry a loaded rifle? Or would the state law take precedence? My county allows loaded rifles to be carried in the vehicle but several counties near me ban them. I would hate to get busted for a county ordinance thinking I was okay by a state law.

[MarcSpaz]

§ 15.2-915.2. This section empowers the governing body of any county or city to, by ordinance, make it unlawful for any person to transport, possess or carry a loaded shotgun or loaded rifle in any vehicle on any public street, road, or highway within such locality.

Looks like if you want to keep a loaded rifle in the car for self defense, no matter what, and know you wont be breaking laws regardless of where you go...

1.) get a CHP and
2.) build or by an AR pistol.

300 blackout or 5.56 with a Sig arm brace and you win.

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