According to Firearm Chronicles
City council members in Alexandria, Virginia are set to approve several local gun measures on Tuesday, even before a new state law weakening the state’s firearms preemption law takes effect on July 1st. The Virginia Citizens Defense League issued an alert to members on Friday with details of the proposed ordinance and urging gun owners to contact city council members to oppose the measure.
The ordinance, which would take effect on July 1st, would ban the possession of firearms in city parks, government buildings, community centers, and permitted events on city streets, with violations of the ordinance treated as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Technically, the Alexandria City Council has already passed a ban on firearms on city property, thought it never took effect. Back in 2019, the city council unanimously approved an ordinance almost identical to the measure they’ll consider this coming Tuesday. As local news site The Zebra reported at the time:
City council has unanimously ordained that the possession, carrying or transportation of firearms in buildings owned, leased or operated by the City; or in parks and in any recreational or community owned or used by the City, is prohibited. The ordinance also states that the possession, carrying, storage or transportation of firearms by City employees, agents or volunteers in workplaces owned, operated or managed by the City is prohibited.