Repealing Virginia’s Church-Service Weapon Ban

By Philip Van Cleave

Virginia – -(Ammoland.com)- We need to repeal the Jim Crow era Blue-law that forbids a person from having a weapon **in a place of worship, during a service.** (18.2-283).

While the Virginia General Assembly is not currently in session, and won’t be in session again until January, we can use this time to build up steam for the repeal next year!

ACTION ITEM #1

Starting NOW, and for the rest of the year, we need to be educating faith leaders, and the public, about the church-service weapon ban and to get as many people as we can onboard in helping us to accomplish the repeal. It would be great to flood the Governor and the General Assembly with phone calls, emails, and letters all summer long. (VCDL will also be distributing postcards to the Governor at gun shows all year.)

Don’t assume that faith leaders and your friends haven’t fallen for the other side’s lie that repealing 18.2-283 negates any church leader’s right to make decisions about guns on their property. To win this we need to educate as many people as we can to the facts and truth.

To that extent, I have a copy of a …Read the Rest

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