According to Firearm Chronicles
Culpeper County, Virginia Sheriff Scott Jenkins has vowed to name thousands of of Virginia residents “reserve deputies” in order to ensure that a potential gun, magazine, and suppressor ban from Gov. Ralph Northam won’t turn them into criminals for keeping their lawfully possessed arms. Now the sheriff is taking the first steps towards implementing that plan by asking for current and retired law enforcement officers to serve as “voluntary background investigators” to help process what Jenkins believes will be thousands of applications from gun owners.
On today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co, Sheriff Scott Jenkins sits down with me to talk about some of the details of his plan, including the fact that Culpeper County residents aren’t the only ones who’ll be eligible to become a reserve deputy. Jenkins tells me that while residents will go to the front of the line when they apply for the position, legal gun owners from throughout the state will be able to become a reserve deputy, which presumably would place them outside of the reach of Northam’s proposed gun ban.
Jenkins also says that he’s heard from a number of other sheriffs in Virginia and several other states who are interested in following suit. The sheriff declared that gun control advocates from the governor on down need to realize that Second Amendment defenders will fight their anti-gun agenda with all legal means, including using the powers vested in sheriffs to both use their discretion in enforcing the law and in determining who exactly is a member of law enforcement.