Your 2A rights are on the chopping block as Virginia Dems plot insane gun bans

The Commonwealth of Virginia, erstwhile the cradle of American liberty and the location of the Bill of Rights, is witnessing a historical betrayal successful existent time.

On March 14, the Virginia General Assembly wrapped up their 2026 legislative league and rammed done implicit 15 pieces of anti-gun legislation.  In conscionable 60 days, the anti-gun near has astir undone weapon rights for millions of law-abiding Virginia residents.

Their crown jewel of tyranny? SB 749 and HB 217, 2 alleged "assault weapons" prohibition bills.

These identical bills landed astatine the table of recently elected Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger during the last days of the legislative league and are presently awaiting her signature.

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, left; a weapon shop, right. (Mike Kropf/Getty Images; Charly Triballeau/Getty Images)

She has promised to motion them into law.  

For years, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and our dedicated members person stood against these unconstitutional infringements arsenic they’ve popped up successful authorities legislatures each astir the country.

Just a fewer weeks ago, done overwhelming grassroots activism and unit from weapon rights organizations similar GOA, a akin "assault weapons" prohibition was defeated successful New Mexico. And past twelvemonth successful Virginia, erstwhile Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed implicit 27 anti-gun bills – including an "assault weapons" ban.

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But with the predetermination of billionaire Michael Bloomberg-backed Spanberger successful November 2025, the governor’s spot is present occupied by a rubber stamp for the extremist weapon power lobby. Anti-gun Democrats besides flipped implicit a twelve pro-gun seats successful the Virginia House of Delegates portion besides maintaining a slim bulk successful the Virginia Senate.

And wrong hours of gaining power of the governor’s mansion and legislature, anti-gun lawmakers began drafting galore weapon control, promising to ram done the General Assembly astatine warp speed.

Make nary mistake: SB 749/HB 217 person thing to bash with "safety" and everything to bash with removing your Second Amendment rights. This authorities targets the astir fashionable firearms successful America — tools utilized by millions of law-abiding citizens for self-defense, contention and sport. According to the FBI, astir doubly arsenic galore radical are murdered with hands/fists than rifles of immoderate kind. And implicit 3 times arsenic galore with knives. Yet anti-gun radicals privation america to judge semi-automatic firearms indispensable beryllium banned.

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But by arbitrarily labeling semi-automatic rifles, pistols and shotguns arsenic "assault firearms" based connected communal features similar folding stocks oregon threaded barrels, the anti-gunners are actively removing your quality to support yourself and your household with the instrumentality of your choice.

Furthermore, the authorities takes purpose astatine standard-capacity magazines, labeling thing implicit 15 rounds arsenic a "large capableness ammunition feeding device."

But with the predetermination of billionaire Michael Bloomberg-backed Spanberger successful November 2025, the governor’s spot is present occupied by a rubber stamp for the extremist weapon power lobby.

The proponents of SB 749 constituent to akin laws that beryllium successful different states, yet the Supreme Court’s Bruen determination made it clear: the authorities indispensable beryllium that a firearm regularisation is accordant with this nation’s humanities tradition.

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There is zero humanities contented of banning the astir commonly owned firearms successful the country. There is zero law ground for targeting definite semi-automatic firearms and utilizing the powerfulness of the authorities to punish anyone who buys, sells, oregon transfers 1 aft July 1, 2026.

The anti-gun Democrats' statement that these are "weapons of war" is simply a lazy buzzword term. These weapons are the modern-day equivalent of the musket — the modular limb of the citizen-soldier.

And let’s beryllium wide — the Second Amendment was not written for cervid hunting; it was written to guarantee that the "body of the people" would ever person the means to defy a tyrannical government.

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When George Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, helium did not mince words erstwhile it came to our close to ain firearms. "That a good regulated militia, composed of the assemblage of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and harmless defence of a escaped state, therefore, the close of the radical to support and carnivore arms shall not beryllium infringed…"

It’s casual to spot wherever the inspiration for the Second Amendment to the U.S. Bill of Rights originated from.

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By stripping Virginians of these tools, Spanberger and her allies are intentionally shifting the equilibrium of powerfulness from the radical to the authorities and jeopardizing liberty and state successful the process. It’s wide they person forgotten, oregon worse yet, are purposefully ignoring the motto of this large commonwealth: "Sic semper tyrannis" which translates to, "thus ever to tyrants."

And wrong hours of gaining power of the governor’s mansion and legislature, anti-gun lawmakers began drafting galore weapon control, promising to ram done the General Assembly astatine warp speed.

Make nary mistake — Gun Owners of America volition not idly standby portion the Spanberger-led authorities of Virginia tosses our weapon rights into the trash.

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Gun Owners Foundation — the ineligible helping of GOA — is already moving with our friends astatine Virginia Citizens Defense League to situation these infringements successful the court. No law-abiding Virginian should beryllium taxable to specified heinous and un-American laws.

The governmental and ineligible fights to reconstruct weapon rights successful Virginia which laic up volition beryllium agelong and difficult, but GOA volition proceed connected until each azygous connection of weapon power is repealed. And arsenic we fight, we transportation the words of the large Founding Father and lifelong Virginian Patrick Henry with implicit resolve, "The large entity is that each antheral beryllium armed. Everyone who is capable whitethorn person a gun."