On November 4, Virginia elected its first woman governor, Democrat Abigail Spanberger.
It also got something else: another chance to pass comprehensive gun reform, something the majority-Democrat General Assembly had tried to do for the past two years, but was stymied by Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.
Youngkin has vetoed 42 gun reform bills since he took office in 2022, including an assault weapons ban, a prohibition on abusive dating partners owning guns, and a minimum age for rifle purchases, according to a Trace analysis. He vetoed 24 of those bills in 2024 alone. The following year, Democrats reintroduced 15 of the same bills — plus three new ones — knowing they had little chance of passage. Now, with Spanberger set to be sworn in on January 17, Democrats are mobilizing for another try.
“We’re not going to take our foot off the gas,” State Senator Adam Ebbin, who chairs the Legislature’s gun violence prevention caucus, told The Trace. Ebbin plans to reintroduce the bills he sponsored that were vetoed by Youngkin last year. “I know that we’ll have others as well who are strategizing on it currently,” he said of his fellow Democratic lawmakers. “So there’ll be a substantial gun safety package reintroduced. And I expect the bills to be signed.”
“We have consistently voted for gun safety reform, and our voters prioritize it,” Ebbin added. “Governor-elect Spanberger is on the right side of those issues.”
Spanberger, who represented the Fredericksburg area in Congress until this year, has been a gun reform advocate since before she embarked on a career in politics. A former CIA operations officer, Spanberger joined a local chapter of the gun reform group Moms Demand Action shortly after she left the agency in 2014, according to a Washington Post profile.
— Jennifer Mascia in Virginia’s Election of a Democratic Governor Primes the State for Gun Reform
Too bad VA republicans didn’t think it was important enough to get off their asses and vote. No sympathy here.
Looking at the voting percentages, it blows my mind (and makes me sad) how many alleged “conservatives” couldn’t be bothered. Now we’re gonna get the gov’t we deserve…
Don’t look at me. I voted as I do every year.
But I’m surrounded by progressives and racists.
BREAKING! SCOTUS TO REVIEW TWO SEPARATE AR-15 BAN CASES!
The Supreme Court will be reviewing whether to take two separate AR-15/”assault weapon” ban cases. Mark Smith, Four Boxes Diner, discusses
BREAKING! SCOTUS TO REVIEW TWO SEPARATE AR-15 BAN CASES!
The Supreme Court will be reviewing whether to take two separate AR-15/”assault weapon” ban cases. Mark Smith, Four Boxes Diner, discusses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFd_yhRTzoY
The NFA Is Collapsing – Another Legal NUKE Dropped on the ATF.
“A new federal court filing may destroy key parts of the National Firearms Act.
In this video, we break down the Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment — filed by gun owners, the NRA, FPC, SAF, and the American Suppressor Association — that argues the ATF is enforcing laws Congress no longer has constitutional authority to enforce.
This case challenges the entire NFA framework over suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and AOWs — and the arguments are explosive.
🔍 In this video I cover:
– Why the NFA is collapsing now that the tax is $0
– How the ATF is enforcing rules with no constitutional foundation
– Why suppressors & SBRs ARE protected by the Second Amendment
– How this case could END federal registration requirements
– What this means for gun owners nationwide
– What happens next in court”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZu87zbED8
UPDATE: Felonies for Self-Defense Against Town Official.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr3yY4v8cOE
[note: this incident originally happened in 2023, but it was not until recently the defender was cleared of any wrong doing and it was determined to have indeed been valid legal self-defense DGU. No one got shot like in thousands of cases around the country annually drawing and brandishing did the trick to make the attacker back off, and because of that saved both the defender and attacker (a drunk city fire chief) from serious injury – had the attacker continued and not backed off the attacker would have been shot.]
Umm, just a question? When did the gun grabbers EVER have their foot off the gas???
Ten round limits and AR bans are coming.
Looks like I need to finagle my residency….
Why are you calling this “gun reform”? Don’t use the propaganda framing of the other side. These proposed laws are gun control and gun bans, plain and simple.
Because this post is a quote. This is their language, not ours.
“Governor-elect Spanberger is on the right side of those issues.”
By which they mean, “the same side as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.”