Embattled Governor Northam Pushing Magazine Ban!

By NRAHQ

Opinion

Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has announced last week that he will convene a special session of the state legislature in order to push a package of radical gun control legislation.

Early reports state that the package will include a ban on the standard capacity firearm magazines used by tens of millions of law-abiding gun owners. The details of Northam’s plan have yet to be released, but such bans in other states and the failed federal ban have often targeted magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds. There are hundreds of millions of magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds that are lawfully-possessed and lawfully used every day in the U.S.

Some have suggested that Northam’s high-profile attack on gun owners is motivated by an eagerness to distractfrom he and Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax’s own problems in the wake of scandals involving a racist yearbook photoand alleged sexual misconduct. Whatever Northam’s motive, it is clear that the evidence does not support his proposed magazine ban.

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