SPANBERGER, VA DEMOCRATS SHOULD TOSS GUN LAW RATHER THAN DELAY

BELLEVUE, WA – Anti-gun Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and her Democrat Assembly allies have retreated from a gun rights battle they are almost certain to lose, delaying their ill-advised ban on carrying modern semiautomatic firearms until 2027 after a Lancaster County judge issued a preliminary injunction against the new law.

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms cheered the ruling, but says the law should be thrown out because it clearly violates the Second Amendment.

“Gov. Spanberger and the Democrats in Richmond have only delayed a fight they started by trying to turn a constitutional right into a regulated privilege,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “And then they tried to regulate the privilege out of existence by banning modern semi-auto firearms, and got properly smacked by the court for doing so.

“Instead of delaying the effective date of this law for one year,” Gottlieb observed, “Spanberger and her cronies at the capital need to completely reverse course, scrap this ban and comply with the constitution.

“It should be clear to Democrats and their media cheerleaders that Virginians, by rushing to gun stores to purchase these popular firearms ahead of the July 1 deadline, have no intention of meekly obeying this outrageous gun ban effort,” he continued. “And the declarations from sheriffs and county prosecutors they will not enforce provisions of SB 749, along with lawsuits filed against the law, prove beyond doubt that the governor and her party’s extremists have created a mess that a one-year delay isn’t going to clean up.

“Virginia Democrats can’t buy enough time to wash away this stain of constitutional ineptitude,” Gottlieb declared. “All they’ve really accomplished is to demonstrate just how far they have moved away from the constitution they swore to uphold. Perhaps in the next election, voters in the Old Dominion will send the Democrats packing, which seems to be the only lesson they understand. As for Spanberger, it’s too late to try pretending all over again she is a moderate. She’s got one term, and by 2029, Virginians will probably have concluded that’s enough.”