Virginia’s Democrat-led Senate approved a range of gun control bills this week aimed at banning firearms from campuses. However, the GOP-controlled House rejected the bills yesterday.
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Virginia House Republicans have voted down a range of bills that would have added new restrictions on firearms, including a ban on assault-style weapons, a college campus gun ban and a gun-storage bill that were priorities for Democrats.is unlikely this year, given the divided control of the General Assembly.
On a 6-4 vote, a House Public Safety subcommittee defeated a bill from Democratic Del. Dan Helmer that would have expanded the definition of"assault firearm" and prohibited the import, sale, transfer, manufacture, purchase or transport of such a gun.The subcommittee also voted down a measure from Democratic Del. Sally Hudson, who represents Charlottesville, that would have made it unlawful to carry a firearm in any building owned or operated by a public institution of higher education.
Virginia colleges already ban weapons through their administrative processes, but those policies don't carry the"full force of law" and leave law enforcement without the authority to enforce them, Hudson said. Virginia state Sen.-elect Jennifer Boysko delivers an address in Richmond, Virginia, on Jan. 11, 2019. A Democrat-led Virginia Senate panel approved a range of gun control bills which were then rejected by the state's GOP-controlled House.. The police chief of the University of Virginia, where a campus shooting in November left three football players dead and two other students injured, has testified in support of both measures.
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