This is Why VCDL Rocks

[Leatherneck]

From Phil VanCleave a few minutes ago:

Big win for gun owners!

The Senate voted today, 24 to 15, to pass SB 476, Senator Hanger's restaurant ban repeal!

Special thanks to Senator Hanger and Cuccinelli!

(In the next alert I will indicate which Senators voted pro-gun and which didn't.)

Anti-gun Senator McEachin had an amendment that would have required that you identify yourself to the restaurant as a CHP holder and then wear some kind of insignia so that the staff wouldn't serve you alcohol!!! So Senator McEachin thinks permit holders should wear a "scarlet letter," as if we are criminals or should be ashamed of ourselves.

The only person I am ashamed of is Senator McEachin.

Senator Hanger offered a substitute amendment that would require the permit holder to let a restaurant staff member know that you are carrying, but that is all. He offered that amendment to make sure he had enough votes to get the bill passed. And the bill did, with that amendment.

VCDL is not thrilled with that amendment, obviously. Imagine telling an 18 year old waitress, "Hi! I have a gun!" We will be looking at options to improve the bill in the House and have some new wording already.

Saslaw lied by saying that anyone who dared to carry openly in a NoVA restaurant would be kicked out. His implication was that no one was open carrying in restaurants now and that no one could say that gun owners were carrying around alcohol currently.

Ha! - Senator Saslaw has no idea just how clueless he actually is.
Fifty or more VCDL members meet once a month at a NoVA restaurant, all carrying openly and without being kicked out, ever. Open carry in NoVA restaurants happens day in and day out, as it does across the state.

Saslaw then tried to kill the bill by sending it to a committee at the last minute.

Cuccinelli spoke against Saslaw's attempt to kill the bill.

The attempt to refer the bill was defeated by 23 to 16.

Senator McEachin then pleaded to have the bill voted down, indicating his contempt and distrust of permit holders.

He failed. We didn't.

He failed. We didn't. Masterful understatement.

TC

Double post. Mod, please delete.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Anti-gun Senator McEachin had an amendment that would have required that you identify yourself to the restaurant as a CHP holder and then wear some kind of insignia so that the staff wouldn't serve you alcohol!!!

Obvious solution: fire the bum.

 

[chris in va]

So, does this mean we can now carry concealed in restaurants, or do we have to wait for it to become law in a few months?

I can vouch for Jill Vogel, she actually wrote me a letter in support of the bill.

 

[Sans Authoritas]

It has to go to the House, then the Governor has to veto it. Then, it has to not have a 2/3 majority to overrule the veto.

-Sans Authoritas