VA Senate Nukes Much Of Northam’s Gun Control Agenda

By Tom Knighton

Despite Virginia’s Ralph Northam having campaigned on gun control, it seems his agenda will have to wait a bit. After all, a key part of it was killed in Virginia’s Republican-controlled Senate, thus derailing what I’m sure was Northam’s plans for gun control to take center stage as he rolls into his governorship.

In particular, it was a bill for universal background checks that died a horrible and fiery death, much to my amusement.

Gov. Ralph Northam made a pitch for gun control at a Capitol Square rally Monday afternoon, but much of his firearm agenda had died Monday morning in a Republican-controlled Senate committee.

A Democratic bill to require universal background checks for gun purchases — a key component of Northam’s gun agenda — was defeated in the Senate Courts of Justice Committee.

Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran, who held the post under former Gov. Terry McAuliffe and now Northam, argued in favor of the bill to require background checks, which had been part of the McAuliffe administration agenda.

Opponents of gun control testified that most checks result in “false positives” that hinder law-abiding citizens from purchasing guns, and that the checks do little to reduce crime.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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