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1. Three more pro-gun bills
2. The REAL agenda for Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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1. Three more pro-gun bills
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Three more pre-filed pro-gun bills were introduced today.
VCDL STRONGLY supports the following bills:
HB 69, Delegate Carrico (R - Galax), "Virginia Firearms Freedom Act" bill put in for the Virginia Campaign for Liberty (Tea Party group) declares that the Federal Government has no jurisdiction over firearms that are made in Virginia and sold in Virginia. The Federal Government has been overstepping its Constitutional powers for years and this will help put an end to some of those encroachments.
HB 72, Delegate Carrico (R - Galax), reduces the penalty for a firearm carried on K-12 property from a class 6 felony to a class 1 misdemeanor UNLESS the gun is intended to be used, or is used in a crime, in which case the penalty is still a class 6 felony. If the gun is unlawfully possessed and is discharged on K-12 property, there is a mandatory five-year prison term. This protects someone who means no harm, but has inadvertently carried a gun onto school property from having their life destroyed by a felony conviction. This bill was put in for VCDL.
HB 79, Delegate Lee Ware (R - Powhatan/Chesterfield), closes the "Chatham Star Tribune" loophole by preventing Circuit Court Clerks from releasing CHP applicant information to anyone except police in the line of duty. The Chatham Star Tribune continues to print information on concealed handgun permit holders and this will bring an end to such abuse. This bill was put in for VCDL.
This is just an FYI at this point, as the session won't be starting until January 13th.
More gun bills will be introduced in the coming days and weeks and I will keep you posted.
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2. The REAL agenda for Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG)
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The Snowflakes In Hell blog site has gotten a copy of MAIG's secret agenda that Bloomberg was trying to keep out of public view. You can download the actual document from the site, as well as read a summary.
No surprises here. It is just what VCDL has been warning about - it has everything from new gun bans to another massive layer of laws and bureaucracies to make it harder and harder to buy a gun. Most of it is to be done without involving Congress by using the administrative and regulatory powers of the BATFE.
Thanks to William Tansill for the link: