Posted August 1, 2019 3:00 pm by Comments

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/Steve Helber

Gun control advocates in Virginia are ramping up their efforts to make gun control a key issue in this year’s legislative elections. At a forum in Petersburg, Virginia this week, anti-gun lawmakers like Rep. Donald McEachin were joined by gun control activists from Moms Demand Action, as well as public officials like Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety Brian Moran in pushing more than a half dozen proposed gun laws, ranging from bans on semi-automatic long guns to civil liability for gun owners whose guns are stolen and used in a crime if they were “negligently” stored. And of course, each and every proposal was deemed by gun control advocates to be nothing more than “common sense”.

The common-sense gun law was a running theme of the town-hall meeting, which drew about 50 people to the Pathways center on West Washington Street. McEachin was joined at the dais by Virginia Secretary of Public Safety Brian J. Moran as they and gun control advocates fielded written questions from the audience, that ranged from community outreach efforts to proposed laws to protecting the rights of reasonable gun owners.

Moran used the forum as an opportunity to softly hit Republicans for …Read the Rest

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