A Democratic-led House committee voted Friday for several pieces of gun legislation that a Republican majority has blocked for years. The advancing bills do not yet include a proposed assault weapon ban, a top priority for Gov. VIRGINIA HOUSE ADVANCES GUN CONTROL MEASURES“There’s been is an all-out assault on our fundamentally protected right, the Second Amendment, since [former Virginia governor] Terry McAuliffe implemented executive order 50 while he was in office and that basically started the gun ban in our government buildings,” Chase said. They started with the Second Amendment, taking away law-abiding citizen’s ability to protect themselves, making them defenseless, and we're talking about turning the Second Amendment on its head.”Virginia has become a key flashpoint in the national debate over gun violence. VIRGINIA'S CAPITOL FLOODED WITH GUN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS FOR SECOND AMENDMENT RALLYNortham and Democratic lawmakers have credited their focus on gun control for helping them win full control of the General Assembly for the first time in more than twenty years.

Source: Fox News January 27, 2020 06:09 UTC