virginia citizens defense league

Defending Your Right to Defend Yourself

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Published 1/21/2026

Tomorrow, Thursday, January 22, the House Public Safety Firearms subcommittee is meeting at 4pm in House North Subcommittee Room 200 to hear the following eight gun-bills – 7 pro and 1 anti:

• HB101, Del. Ballard, allows other methods of applying for a CHP (VCDL Supports this bill)
• HB106, Del. Ballard, lowers the maximum CHP fee to $25 (VCDL Supports this bill)
• HB540, Del. Hamilton, allows women with active protection orders extended carry options (VCDL Supports this bill)
• HB623, Del. Cherry, allows for petitioning a court to return confiscated weapons (VCDL Supports this bill)
• HB691, Del. Zehr, removes option for local park and permitted event gun-bans (VCDL Supports this bill)
• HB692, Del. Zehr, lowers the maximum CHP fee to $25 (VCDL Supports this bill)
• HB696, Del. Zehr, allows carry in rest areas and ABC stores (VCDL Supports this bill)
• HB702, Del. Cole, J., creates a program to collect and destroy firearms that are voluntarily turned in (VCDL Opposes this bill)

ACTION ITEMS

1. Send a pre-written, but editable email to your delegate about those bills. Our system automatically determines who your delegate is by your home address.  Click here to send the email.  NOTE: If you click on the box, “Yes, sign me up to receive text alerts,” you will need to supply your mobile phone number. Otherwise, you don’t need to supply a phone number if you don’t wish to do so.
2. If you can attend the subcommittee meeting in person, Pat Webb or I will have GSL stickers for you to wear. Flooding the room with people wearing the GSL stickers has the most impact.
3. If you can’t attend in person, sign-up to speak REMOTELY using your computer with a microphone and camera and/or to submit written comments to the subcommittee, click here.
4. Whether you can attend or not, click the link in #3 and post written comments.  These comments are visible to the public and sent to every committee member.
   
   

Let’s roll!