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Virginia Aims to Kill Gun-a-Month Purchase Cap

State Senate expected to do away with 19-year-old limit today

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 3, 2012 2:50 AM CST | Updated Feb 3, 2012 3:31 AM CST

(Newser) – Today's big gun story comes not from Arizona, but Virginia: The Virginia Senate aims today to shoot down a 19-year-old cap limiting residents to buying just one gun a month. Earlier this week, the Senate also passed a bill prohibiting towns from requiring fingerprints from people seeking permits to carry concealed weapons. The gun bills are two of a flood of changes expected to come down the Virginia pike now that the GOP controls the state Senate, House, and governor's mansion for only the second time since the Civil War.

Today's pistol-packing bill infuriates the gun-control activist mom of a student injured in the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech that killed 32. "Obviously, it says something about the Republicans that they pander to special interest groups instead of law enforcement and the citizens of Virginia,” Lori Haas told the Washington Post. More than 40 gun bills will come before the General Assembly this session, most of them aimed at expanding gun rights.
Virginia is for gun lovers.
Virginia is for gun lovers.   (?Elliott P)
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laststand
Feb 3, 2012 7:13 PM CST
The bill of rights is not the bill of needs.  It is none of your business how many guns I purchase over a period of time.  Limiting a person to one gun per month is like limiting a person to one book per month or one church visit per month and represents radical anti civil rights views.  A person who has no interest in owning a gun should not be trying to harm law abiding gun owners by imposing limits on their ability to purchase firearms just like a person who has no interest in books should not be trying to impose a law limiting how many books they can buy and to do so shows that the person is a petty idiot.  The purpose of a right is to block the mob (of idiots) from violating a person’s ability to practice that right with such idiotic laws like one gun per month.
CAMNEWTON999
Feb 3, 2012 1:21 PM CST
How i this a good thing? How many guns can a person fire at one time?  Unless they are planning on getting into an unbelievable shootout there is no reason to have that many guns.. And also, this is by no means an opinion piece.. those you you who are saying so are fucking retarded.. There is literally no bias whatsoever..
LoginsSuck
Feb 3, 2012 12:38 PM CST
I don't think there should be a limit of what you can legally purchase as long as you pass required background checks. That is the purpose of the checks to make sure no criminal buys, right? If a person is going to go through legal channels to purchase a gun I don't think it makes a difference if it's one or five a month. If a person is going to do illegal things with the gun I also don't think it makes a difference if they can buy one or five, they still are going to do illegal things and the background check should kick in. Plus they are more likely to obtain guns illegally.   I do think if you are purchasing an abnormally large quantity of guns that it should be made available to the public and law enforcement that you are and it can be determined as to why so you can be watched if needed. Example - I am buying 5 cool guns for my personal antique collection. I am buying 12 guns, one for each of my kids for Christmas. Or I am buying 100 rifles for my stockpile in Waco by the way do you sell grenades. Which one do you think law enforcement is more likely to watch? That being said, I do wonder who is behind the push for the change - gun manufacturers or sellers? or is there really a bunch of people out there upset that they cannot buy the guns they want? Most collectors and conceal permit holders can apply to purchase more than one already.
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