Virginia's Governor Wants to Ban Even More Guns

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just sent an assault firearms ban back to the legislature — not to weaken it, but to demand it cover even more guns.  In this episode I break down what's in the bill, why the former 'moderate' is pushing for maximum restrictions, and how this could become a blueprint for gun bans nationwide. If you own a semi-automatic rifle or pistol, this one matters.

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Welcome to the Live to Shoot podcast. My name's Jeff Do, and I've been a licensed farm dealer for the last 18 years. And this podcast, we talk about all things related to Second Amendment. Anything else go in the world, a sports story or anything else I find interesting? So welcome, welcome, welcome. Alright, so today we need to talk about what's happening in Virginia because it's another textbook example of how gun control works. When one party controls the entire state government, and I mean textbook. So Virginia's the governor, Abigail Span Berger, a Democrat. Had taken an already bad assault weapon ban that was working its way through the legislator, and it sent it back demanding that it be made even worse. She wants to expand it. She wants more firearms covered, more restrictions, and more control. So let's walk through what's happening. So Virginia Democrat controlled legislator has been pushing a bill that would ban the sale and carry of so-called assault firearms. Now, we've talked about before how the term assault firearm is essentially a made up political category. No standard legal or mechanical definition of assault firearm that makes any real sense. What they're really talking about are semi-automatic rifles and pistols that have a certain cosmetic or ergonomic features. We're talking about pistol grips, adjustable stocks, threaded barrels, magazine capacities over a certain number. Features that have nothing to do with how the gun actually functions in, in a semi-automatic rifle, fired in one round per trigger pole, whether it's a thumbhole stock or a traditional stock. But, but they know that. This isn't about function, it's not about fear, it's about something sounding scary enough that the average person who doesn't know farms will go along with banning it. So the legislator had this sorry. The legislator had this bill moving forward, and Governor Span Berger looked at it and essentially said, you know what? This doesn't go far enough. She sent it back with amendments demanding that the ban be broadened to include many more farms. So let's be straight when a governor sends a bill back, not'cause it's too aggressive, because it's not, isn't aggressive enough. That should concern every gun owner in America, not just Virginia. Now here's what gets interesting span Berger, if you remember former a congresswoman, she represented a swing state in Virginia. She used that position herself as a moderate. She was one of those Democrats who would talk about respecting the Second Amendment while still supporting common sense gun safety features. And now that she's governor with a friendly legislature, the mask is off. There's no more moderate language. There is no more pretending to balance rights with regulation. It's a full push to ban as many firearms as possible, and that should tell you everything you need to know about what common sense gun reform actually means to these folks. It means whatever they can get away with at the time, and when they have the votes, they go for everything. So what does this mean practically? Well. If this expanded ban goes through Virginia owners who currently legally own carry and purchase these firearms, would be looking at a sales ban on a huge category of common popular firearms. We're not talking about rare or exotic. We're talking about AR 15 platforms. We're talking about commonly owned semi-automatic pistols and rifles that millions American needs for self-defense, for sporting shooting, for competition, for home defense, et cetera. Those are some of the most popular guns in the country. The Supreme Court and Bruin, the decision made it clear that the Second Amendment protects arms are in common use for lawful purposes, and that's nothing more common than AR 15 style rifle. So the legal cha challenges here are going to be significant. You can bet that the moment any version of this field becomes law, it's going to be challenging. And under the Bruno framework, which requires gun loss to be consistent with the historical tradition of firearm regulation in America, a broadband on commonly owned Semitic firearms is going to have a very hard time surviving. There is no historical analog for banning an entire class of the most popular firearms in the nation. It just doesn't exist. Here's the bottom line. Even if sh this gets struck down, eventually the damage gets done. In the meantime, gun stores stop stocking these products. Manufacturers pull back legal, un legal gun owners face uncertainty about what they can buy, sell, carry, and possess, and that's the strategy. Make gun ownership so legally complicated, so legally risky that people just give up and that's what we're up against. This isn't just about Virginia, it's blueprint. If it works in Virginia, we're gonna see it in every blue state. You'll with a trifecta, government, you'll see it in Minnesota, Colorado. You'll see it pushed at the federal level, and next time Democrats get the votes, Virginia is a test case and they're watching to see how far they can push it. So if you're Virginia, get involved, contact your legislators, support the legal challenges that are going to come join Virginia Citizen Defense League, or whichever organization is on the ground fighting this. And if you're not in Virginia, don't look the other way. This, this does affect you. It does because the precedent set in one state always bleeds into others. At the end of the day, the Second Amendment doesn't have an asterisk. It doesn't say the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed unless the government governor decides she wants a broader ban. Our rights are not negotiable, and they're not subject to the political ambitions of any one politician. So if you found this valuable, subscribe, share it with others. Give it five stars. People need to know what's going on in Virginia because this isn't over. We're gonna have to keep fighting. It comes back up. Yeah, I think they're gonna have to revote on it in their legislature now with their changes. So we'll have to just keep tracking on what's going on with it. I'll keep you updated either in this podcast, if not, if not getting my newsletter, sign up for my newsletter. Those are where other I cover more stories. And share you things from, from other creators and what's going on so you can stay, stay as current as possible on some of the bigger topics. But for that, I'm Jeff Doddle. It's live to shoot. We're defendant the Second Amendment. Stay informed, stay armed, and fight, fight, fight, fight when We will talk to you next week.