According to NRA-ILA
Freedom-loving Virginians are breathing a well-deserved sigh of relief. On Monday, February 17, four Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee joined their Republican colleagues to vote down HB 961. The legislation, backed by disgraced Governor Ralph Northam and his Michael Bloomberg-bought allies in the House of Delegates, would have banned a wide array of commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and magazines, making criminals out of otherwise law-abiding individuals merely for retaining possession of their own property.
However, this victory for the Second Amendment did not mark the end of the fight to preserve gun rights in the Commonwealth. There is still an array of anti-gun legislation making its way through the General Assembly and Virginia gun owners must continue their heroic efforts to defend the Constitution straight through to the end of the legislative session.
On Monday February 24, the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to take up several gun control bills already passed by the House of Delegates. Some of the legislation is a House version of a policy already passed by the Senate. In these instances, the House version of the legislation is far worse than what the Senate produced.