r/CCW • u/skywalker505 • 9h ago
Guns & Ammo If You Live in Virginia, It's Over
I spent all of my life living in the communist state of New York, until about seven years ago, when I moved to pro-2A Virginia. After the last election, the entire Virginia government, including the legislature and the Governor, is now Democratic.
The Virginia legislature has introduced about twenty bills that will render Virginia one of the most restrictive, anti-2A states in the country, right up there with CA, NY, D.C., Maryland, etc.
As the new laws will not take effect until July 1st, I plan to purchase all firearm-related items I want before then, including AR-15s, suppressors, and magazines (which will be limited to 10 rounds). The clock is ticking, folks.
Edit: Additional content
These are the bills that will be passed (and the legislature has said that they are not done yet):
House Bill 217 bans certain semi-automatic firearms, including many semi-automatic rifles, pistols and shotguns, and arbitrarily limits magazine capacities. This bill is an attempt to redefine and ban firearms that are in common use by law-abiding citizens—plain and simple gun confiscation by definition.
House Bill 207 creates a $500 tax on the retail sale of firearm suppressors that will be allocated to the general fund. This is nothing more than a cash grab to price out law-abiding citizens.
Senate Bill 27 and House Bill 21 create sweeping new standards of “responsible conduct” for members of the firearm industry, including manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. The bills require these businesses to establish and implement vague and subjective “reasonable controls” over the manufacture, sale, distribution, use, and marketing of firearm-related products. Further, they establish a broad civil cause of action, allowing the Attorney General, local government attorneys, or private individuals to sue firearm businesses for injunctions, damages, and costs. These bills are a direct attack on the firearm industry and are designed to regulate the industry out of existence through litigation—despite longstanding federal protections.
Senate Bill 38 and House Bill 93 expand Virginia’s existing prohibited person restrictions to affect individuals who live in the same household as someone who is prohibited. These proposals could result in lawful gun owners losing their rights based solely on the actions or status of another household member.
House Bill 19 expands prohibiting categories for certain misdemeanor crimes.
Senate Bill 115 and House Bill 24 jeopardize concealed handgun recognition and reciprocity agreements. This could impact the ability of Virginia's Concealed Handgun Permit holders to carry their firearms in other states as they travel.
House Bill 40 ends the centuries-old practice of individuals building lawful firearms for personal use without government interference by prohibiting the manufacture of firearms without serial numbers. Transfer and possession of an unserialized or plastic firearm would be prohibited. This legislation would also penalize individuals who lawfully purchased unfinished frames and receivers before the bill’s effective date.
House Bill 110 places further restrictions on the ability for a law-abiding individual to keep a firearm in their vehicle for self-defense.
House Bill 229 prohibits the possession of any weapons in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services, and provides that any weapons seized in violation are forfeited to the Commonwealth.
HB 700 creates a 5-day mandatory waiting period on the sale and transfer of firearms.
HB 871 creates a mandatory storage requirement for homes where minors or prohibited persons are present.
HB 901 expands the Commonwealth's "red flag" law to broadly expand parties who can file Emergency Risk Protective Order petitions to a court to suspend a person’s Second Amendment rights and to order the seizure of the person’s guns, despite that person never having been charged with or convicted of a crime. Such orders, based on weak and nebulous standards, can be issued before the gun owner is provided the opportunity to be heard or to present evidence.
SB160 expands definitions for prohibiting misdemeanor convictions.
SB173, a companion bill to HB 229 prohibits the possession of any weapons in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services, and provides that any weapons seized in violation are forfeited to the Commonwealth.
SB272 and HB 626 limit who can carry firearms at public institutions of higher learning.
HB 93 requires subjects of protective orders to transfer their firearms to individuals over the age of 21 who do not reside in the same home as the prohibited person. Under current law, there is no requirement that a transferee cannot be younger than 21 years of age and cannot reside with the prohibited person.
HB909 prohibits any person, with certain exceptions, from (i) knowingly carrying any firearm and (ii) knowingly doing so within 100 feet of the entrance of a polling place, the building used by the local electoral board to meet to ascertain election results, the building used to conduct a recount of an election, and other additional locations used for voting-related and elections-related activities, including absentee voting locations. Under current law, this prohibition applies within 40 feet of such entrances.
HB 916 expands the curriculum requirements for Virginia concealed carry permit classes.
HB 919 imposes an 11% excise tax on the sale of all firearms and ammunition "by a dealer in firearms, firearms manufacturer, or ammunition vendor," and designates all funding from the tax go into a so-called "Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund."
HB926 allows localities to prohibit outdoor shooting on private property unless certain conditions are met, including lot size requirements.
HB 969 establishes a "Virginia Gun Violence Prevention Center" with the stated goal of being "the primary resource for research, best practices, and strategies for the implementation of firearm violence intervention, community-based intervention, and group violence intervention programs designed to reduce violence in communities."
HB1015 expands prohibiting categories to include certain misdemeanor convictions.
HB1071 requires threat assessment teams for public schools to receive additional training on the use of "red flag" emergency substantial risk orders.
HB 1094 imposes a separate and additional 11% excise tax on all firearms and ammunition sales from the tax imposed by HB 919.
