Don't Tell Me About Another Campus Massacre, Tell Me That Handguns Will Be Banned
Virginia imposes few restrictions on the purchase of handguns and no requirement for any kind of licensing or training. The state does limit handgun purchases to one per month to discourage bulk buying and resale, state officials said.
Once a person had passed the required background check, state law requires that law enforcement officers issue a concealed carry permit to anyone who applies. However, no regulations and no background checks are required for purchase of weapons at a Virginia gun show.
“Virginia’s gun laws are some of the weakest state laws in the country,” said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. “And where there have been attempts to make some changes, a backdoor always opens to get around the changes, like the easy access at gun shows.”
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too easy an answer. would rather blame and try to ban videogames. talk about ass-backwards...
Even the state of NY has sent undercover agents to Virginia to prove how easy it is to buy guns there, as a large number of guns used in crimes in New York City have Virgina origins.
Chimpy and Dobson will be telling us very soon how it's the lack of Jesus that caused it all.
What a dreadful little amendment the second is... its most passionate defenders the very sort of people we need to be defended from. Yes, I know that there are good, responsible gun owners and hunters, but every year in Vermont we have some idiots turned loose in hunting season who make us all very, very sorry that they had the power of the gun... and what a wishy washy form that assumed that this young man would be truthful on whether or not he'd ever been involuntarily committed.. a simple yes or no would suffice, thank you.
I ache for the victims, living and dead.
The gunman sounded like Napoleon Dynamite.
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