Keep in mind that the difference could have been just one Senator in these votes.
It is now up to the House of Deligates to change or vote down any of these.
Remember that it is easier to get a politician that respects the 2A into just enough seats to make a difference than it is to convince one that doesn't to go against their party.
“This isn’t about safety, this is about feeling good,” Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Rockingham, said. “That’s what this legislation is about.”
It is now up to the House of Deligates to change or vote down any of these.
https://www.roanoke.com/news/politics/senate-passes-gun-control-bills-sends-them-to-house/article_e4e279c4-df5f-5dc1-9ebc-62201ae2a116.html said:RICHMOND — The Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate passed three gun control bills Thursday as Republicans pushed back at the proposals, arguing that they target law-abiding gun owners.
The Senate voted along party lines on bills allowing localities to ban firearms from certain areas as well as restoring the repealed law that caps handgun purchases to one per month. On the bill to expand background checks to all firearm sales and commercial transfers, two Republicans — Sens. Emmett Hanger, R-Augusta, and Siobhan Dunnavant, R-Henrico — joined Democrats.
permit localities to prohibit firearms in buildings owned by the localities or used for government purposes, in public parks owned by the localities, ...
bill to reinstate the one-handgun-a-month law that a Republican-controlled legislature repealed in 2012
Senate Democrats’ version of universal background checks will require any firearm sale and commercial transfer to require a background check.
Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax City, a moderate Democrat who enjoys hunting, offered a different version of the original bill, which was much stricter. It applied to all firearm transfers, but Petersen wanted to provide some leeway.
He also changed the bill to reduce the penalty from a Class 6 felony to a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Remember that it is easier to get a politician that respects the 2A into just enough seats to make a difference than it is to convince one that doesn't to go against their party.
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