We told you recently how anti-gun Virginia lawmakers had, for the second year in a row, passed a number of arguably unconstitutional measures related to firearms and sent them to Gov. Glenn Younkin for his consideration. It was like déjà vu all over again since those same lawmakers had passed more than 30 anti-gun schemes last year.
Fortunately for Virginia gun owners, Youngkin once again made good use of his veto pen, vetoing some two dozen punitive restrictions that Democrat lawmakers wanted to force on their constituents. According to an alert from the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), the governor vetoed 30 gun-control bills, modified six other gun control bills so that they no longer pose a threat to Virginia’s lawful gun owners and signed four bills that had been modified in the General Assembly changing VCDL’s position from “oppose” to “neutral.”
Among some of the worst measures vetoed were SB 848 and SB 880. The first would have raised the purchase age for certain semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and pistols to 21, while the other would have prohibited carrying certain semi-automatic centerfire rifles or shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, public right-of-way, or in any public park or other places open to the public.
Two other measures, SB 891 and its House companion HB1607, would have imposed an arbitrary five-day delay before a law-abiding citizen could take possession of a legally purchased firearm. As we’ve mentioned many times in the past, there is no evidence that waiting periods reduce suicides, homicides, or mass shootings.
Other bills vetoed would require state-mandated firearms storage and prohibit law-abiding adults and individuals under the age of 21 from owning specific semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and pistols. […]
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