va-alert: urgent wytheville update 10/26/25
Wytheville is dropping the proposed gun-control ordinance from their agenda tomorrow, Monday, October 27! Your emails and phone calls made a difference! We will keep an eye on Wytheville to see if this is the end of it, or just a delay. A few members are going to attend the meeting anyhow and report back to me on what happens.
The Wytheville Interim Town Manager, Sherry Corvin, sent this out to a member:
“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓, 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫. 𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐈𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝟏𝟏𝐃 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐍𝐨. 𝟏𝟒𝟔𝟎, 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟗. 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬 – 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐈. 𝐈𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟏. 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟗-𝟑𝟖. 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬, 𝐀𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐟, 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲, 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞, 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧i𝐚, 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚. 𝐍𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬.”

