Hooray for us.
(this year)
On Monday, the Mike Bloomberg and Gov. Ralph Northam-backed "assault weapons" ban that passed the Virginia House of Delegates, died in the state Senate Judiciary Committee. The vote failed after four moderate Democrats broke with their party to kill the bill. Bravo to these four brave souls, who will have undoubtedly earned the ire of the anti-gun lobby, but ultimately did the right thing. One of those four senators was mine (not that I voted for him, but he won my district). Will wonders ever cease???
Hope springs eternal.
We cannot say for sure if the tens of thousands of good Virginians (and many others) and the Virginia Citizens Defense League and ARFCOMers, who came out to demonstrate, pack county hearings all over the state, secure more than a 100 cities and counties declarations of Second Amendment sanctuaries, donating money, organizing buses, lining up all the important votes in Richmond and packing those with patriots and prepared speakers, welcoming Mike B to his Arlington HQ with a terrific rally (praised as the gold standard for first amendment demonstration by the few Arlington policeman who were present)..... had anything to do with this vote.
But I will be forever in shock and awe of and gratefulness for the collective good work done by everyone. (so far)
And it's not like we're not getting some other (slightly less objectionable)
crap laws crammed down our throats anyway.
But this was the big one. The one that had the potential to make a hundred thousand felons (give or take) out of previously law abiding firearms owner good citizens. A hundred thousand (give or take) good men and women who have collectively lived full lifetimes without a single felony conviction among them (except maybe a precious few with small nonviolent felonies who won restoration of civil rights in a court of law).
