Virginia Crime Commission Meets To Hear Gun Control Bills
By Cam Edwards
When Virginia Governor Ralph Northam called a special session of the legislature to push almost a dozen pieces of gun control after the May 31st shootings in Virginia Beach, Republican lawmakers responded by adjourning without taking up a single bill. Instead, Republicans shunted all of the gun control bills to the state’s Crime Commission, which is meeting this week to hear several dozen proposals.
Legislators have filed more than 70 bills, including a ban on military-style assault weapons, reinstating the state’s lapsed one-handgun-a-month law, mandatory minimum sentences for firearm offenses and the ability of localities to regulate firearms.
I’ve been watching the live stream of the Crime Commission (you can watch here), and already I’ve heard the Virginia State Police acknowledge that the vast majority of sales of more than one gun per month came from individuals who are licensed to carry a concealed firearm in the state. When the state’s now-expired one-gun-a-month law added a provision that allowed concealed carry holders to purchase more than one gun per month, violations of the law declined dramatically. This indicates that most criminals are not obtaining their firearms through lawful purchases at gun stores, which makes sense.
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Source:: Bearing Arms
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