Virginia Cuts Reciprocity With 25 States

By Johannes Paulsen

Virginia attorney general Mark Herring (D, in case you were wondering) has announced that he will be severing Virginia’s firearms license reciprocity agreements with a slew of states. Herring, a Tennessee native who now resides in Fairfax County and enthusiastically accepted contributions from anti-gun plutocrat Michael Bloomberg during the election in 2013, apparently wants to do all he can to cut down on the number of Virginians and others who can legally carry a concealed firearm in the Old Dominion. According to the Washington Post, the list of states that have had the agreements severed include . . .

Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming

Reading between the lines in the WaPo article, Herring’s pretext for the move appears to be concern that these other states fail to adhere to Virginia’s strict standards. Virginia law lists 20 conditions that would disqualify a person from being issued a concealed carry handgun permit including anyone in the United States illegally, subject to a protection from abuse order, or convicted of various criminal charges …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns