The future of SB 749 will be determined by whether Virginia can justify banning firearms that millions of Americans lawfully own and use every day.
Guns have always been the only issue where traditional journalism rules don’t seem to apply.
Everytown isn’t angry because Americans are unsafe. They are angry because one of their favorite federal weapons is being temporarily restrained.
Customers are looking for ARs, AR pistols and regular handguns with a threaded barrel to accept sound suppressors.
If constitutional violations can merely be outsourced to private entities exercising government-like authorities, there will need to be more affirmative protection through the legislative process itself.
The goal isn’t to make the Second Amendment safer. The goal is to make it unusable.
Will anti-gun extremists now try to force through a new law that would create a carve-out to force the prosecution of these gun cases?
The average Democrat voter wants stricter gun control laws, all things being equal. But it’s almost never a top five or even a top 10 issue for them.
After Trump returned to the White House, his administration announced an end to the zero-tolerance policy, urged revoked dealers to reapply and started settling the court cases, one after another.
As AWR Hawkins notes in his tweet above, gun banners have now moved beyond their traditional attempts to ban AR-15s
