The governor’s acknowledgment that the law covers common hunting models will likely be cited in Second Amendment challenges. If the law is not amended, she could prove the main witness against her own signed legislation. [More]
Yeah, I know… any chair in a bar fight.
Thing is, 2A isn’t about hunting and “common use” will come back to bite us.
So will special exemptions for Fudds.
[Via Michael G]
One question that should come to mind when it comes to gun law in general, and this one in particular. If it stands, how will it affect the carrying and ownership of AR15s by Virginians and if it does, will that effect be positive or negative with respect to “gun violence” and how large will it be?
Remember that per the FBI, long arms of all types, of which AR15s are only a part, are used in something on the order of 3% of firearms related crime in the USA. So if Spanberger’s ban is even close to 100% effective, the most you could hope to improve crime stats as a result would be some fraction of 3%.
Also remember the almost total lack of compliance with the 55 mph speed limits back in the 1970s before they were abandoned as useless posturing.
Next, and I hope you’re not getting tired of hearing about him, but a family friend, a firearm owning Biden supporting ( yeah I know, that part makes my eyes cross as well ) West Virginian said: “Marijuana has been banned since before I was born, yet I’ve been smoking it all of my life! What makes you thing I give a flying f*ck what gun laws they pass?”
Finally, alcohol consumption in the USA actually went up during prohibition. In my college days, people I knew that sometimes admitted that they didn’t like pot smoked it anyway in order to “stick it to the man.” Then there’s the explosion of demand for AR15s that was likely generated by the 1994 AWB. IOW, we Americans are a perverse bunch. We do stuff BECAUSE the government has told us that we can’t. Has Governor Spanberger’s administration even considered that the number of AR15s in circulation in the state might actually go up, and by a lot, a a result of her law?