As Virginia’s undeclared war on the Second Amendment advances, residents continue to prove their dedication to the right to keep and bear arms.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) reported that new Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D) anti-gun agenda includes banning the most popular sporting rifles and standard-capacity magazines. Director of NRA-ILA John Commerford blasted leaders for “extinguishing the meaningful exercise of Second Amendment rights in the commonwealth in one fell swoop.”
Business owners report massive surge in semi-automatic sales
Roanoke gun store proprietor Mitchell Tyler told local media that business began booming around the time the current state legislature convened with ominous threats of crippling gun control.
“I’d say we’re selling eight to ten times as many firearms each day as we were prior to this session starting,” the co-owner of Safeside Tactical noted. The shop owner added that his customers who regularly rent popular semi-automatic weapons for range shooting are now purchasing them instead.
Of course they are. Law-abiding citizens will always rally around fundamental constitutional rights that radical lawmakers threaten.
Virginia’s weapons industry will suffer long-term due to prohibition
Tyler knows that the current boom is fleeting and that, as of July 1, selling or transferring semi-automatic firearms carries penalties of up to one year in jail and a $2,500 fine. That’s why Virginia residents now rush to legally acquire these items before they are banned.
The gun shop owner believes his business will shrink a whopping 30 percent in the long term.
One of Tyler’s customers, Quintin Arthur, explained that he does not like an overbearing government telling him how he may exercise his Second Amendment rights.
“I don’t like when somebody tells me I can’t have something and I can’t keep something, so that’s why I’m buying more of them,” Arthur said.
State Sen. William Stanley (R) opposed the prohibition. “There are millions of Virginians who own firearms, and of those millions of owners who own one or more firearms in the Commonwealth of Virginia, they own billions of pieces of ammunition. If we were the problem, you would know about it.”
Exactly. These grandstanding bills only affect the law-abiding, not violent criminals who should be targeted.
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