Northam Reveals Gun Control Wish List, None Would Have Stopped Va Beach

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Posted July 5, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam wants his state to pass gun control. Yet the legislature refused to do so during the regular session.

Following the tragedy in Virginia Beach, Northam followed the old adage of “never let a crisis go to waste” and called for a special session to address gun control.

This week, he revealed his wish list of what he wants out of this session.

Northam is proposing universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, bump stocks and silencers. He also wants to reinstate Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month law, require lost and stolen firearms be reported to police within 24 hours and allow localities to enact firearm ordinances that are stricter than state law, such as regulating firearms in municipal buildings. He thinks the punishment for allowing a child access to loaded, unsecured firearms should be enhanced from a misdemeanor to a felony and the age of the children the law applies to should be raised from 14 to 18.

Northam is also interested in extreme risk protection orders, which allow a third party — in Virginia, officials said this would be a police officer or prosecutor — to petition a judge for a warrant to seize legally …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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