ACTION ITEM: Gun Legislation - Virginia Legislature Today's action item is to ask legislators to improve the Commonwealth's gun laws. While my instinct is to say "just repeal all of them and leave it up to the Virginia State Constitution" http://legis.state.va.us/Laws/search/Constitution.htm#1S13 , Incumbent Party politicians are generally timid -- so, let's ask for something many of them will agree is "do-able". Of course, feel free to add a couple of lines to the messages letting them know there is a constituency out there that is interested in going a lot further towards freedom.
The rest of this message is from the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL): ============================================================== Now is the time to contact your Delegate and your Senator and ask them to pre-file two pro-gun bills: 1. A bill to completely repeal the restaurant ban, allowing permit holders to carry just like off-duty and untrained Commonwealth Attorneys can now do. 2. A bill to allow a CHP holder to carry on K-12 school property, just like off-duty and untrained Commonwealth Attorneys can now do. -- To ask your Senator, click here: http://tinyurl.com/5mj2ud -- To ask your Delegate, click here: http://tinyurl.com/5fka8y -- LET'S NOT FORGET THE GOVERNOR! Here is a suggested message for the Governor: -- Dear Governor Kaine, I urge you to support the following two bills when introduced in the General Assembly. Both bills give trained concealed-handgun permit holders the same carry rights as an untrained and off-duty state lawyer based on a bill (SB 776) that you signed into law in the 2008 session: 1. A bill to strike 18.2-308 J3. This will allow a trained person with a concealed handgun permit to be able to carry concealed in a restaurant or club that serves alcoholic beverages, as untrained Commonwealth Attorneys can now do. 2. A bill to allow a trained concealed handgun permit holder to carry on K-12 school grounds, as untrained Commonwealth Attorneys can now. A recent Attorney General's Opinion provided to Delegate Lee Ware on June 10, 2008, confirmed that, based on your signing SB 776 into law, effective July 1, 2008, Commonwealth Attorneys and their deputies can carry concealed firearms into restaurants serving alcoholic beverages and can carry concealed firearms on K-12 property. As a law-abiding citizen who has been screened, background checked, and trained in order to meet the criteria for a state issued concealed handgun permit, I should have at least the same rights as an off-duty state lawyer for whom no firearms training is required. Please let me know what you are going to do. -- You can send the message above to the Governor by clicking here and doing a copy/paste: http://tinyurl.com/32qkqr For the subject use something like: Support gun owners like you supported state lawyers! ============================================================== Please forward copies of any responses that you receive to: Marc Montoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Philip Van Cleave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe to VCDL's Alerts directly, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, or visit: http://www.listbox.com/subscribe/?list_id=727 Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you! Marc Montoni, Secretary Libertarian Party of Virginia ============================================================== -- end -- ############################################################# Have an announcement you'd like to post? SCC members & many committee heads are all authorized to post; or you may send your announcements to the List Master: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. ################################################## Unsubscribe: Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with no subject and "Unsubscribe Announce" as the text. ############################################################# Libertarian Party of Virginia http://www.LPVA.com Phone: 703-715-6230
