News out of VA legislative session

[stansdds]

Colonial Shooting Academy in Richmond, VA might also be a target.

 

[Jessie]

There is a public shooting range in the basement of the NRA headquarters building in northern Va. That's the target of this bill.

Unfortunately, that makes total sense.

 

[Watchdog]

I read where it’s indoor ranges that have at least 50 employees.

You are correct.

Click here to read the entire text of House Bill 567.

Click here to see it in PDF version.

This is the pertinent part of the bill:

B. It is unlawful to operate an indoor shooting range in any building not owned or leased by the Commonwealth or the federal government unless (i) fewer than 50 employees work in the building or (ii) (a) at least 90 percent of the users of the indoor shooting range are law-enforcement officers, as defined in § 9.1-101, or federal law-enforcement officers, (b) the indoor shooting range maintains a log of each user's name, phone number, address, and the law-enforcement agency where such user is employed, and (c) the indoor shooting range verifies each user's identity and address by requiring all users to present a government-issued photo-identification card.

It really doesn't matter whether this range or that range is the "target" of the bill. It's all-inclusive for ranges that have at least 50 employees.

On another note, I've seen a few comments in the threads pertaining to the situation in Virginia where people seem to be sort of heaving a sigh of relief, or even seeing it as a "victory", that the Assault Weapons Ban part of these bills didn't move forward.

Does anyone really believe that some sort of AWB bill won't come up again before 2022? I can just about guarantee you it will. If I were a Virginia gun owner, I'd keep hammering legislators with any kind of communication available to voice opposition to any degree of infringement regarding "assault" weapon ownership.

 

[Jessie]

I couldn’t agree more.
That shooting range legislation is the poster child for draconian.

 

[fordson]

You are correct.

Click here to read the entire text of House Bill 567.

Click here to see it in PDF version.

This is the pertinent part of the bill:

B. It is unlawful to operate an indoor shooting range in any building not owned or leased by the Commonwealth or the federal government unless (i) fewer than 50 employees work in the building or (ii) (a) at least 90 percent of the users of the indoor shooting range are law-enforcement officers, as defined in § 9.1-101, or federal law-enforcement officers, (b) the indoor shooting range maintains a log of each user's name, phone number, address, and the law-enforcement agency where such user is employed, and (c) the indoor shooting range verifies each user's identity and address by requiring all users to present a government-issued photo-identification card.

It really doesn't matter whether this range or that range is the "target" of the bill. It's all-inclusive for ranges that have at least 50 employees.

On another note, I've seen a few comments in the threads pertaining to the situation in Virginia where people seem to be sort of heaving a sigh of relief, or even seeing it as a "victory", that the Assault Weapons Ban part of these bills didn't move forward.

Does anyone really believe that some sort of AWB bill won't come up again before 2022? I can just about guarantee you it will. If I were a Virginia gun owner, I'd keep hammering legislators with any kind of communication available to voice opposition to any degree of infringement regarding "assault" weapon ownership.

I don’t read this as the range having 50 employees, but that the Building having fewer than 50 employees makes the range Lawful.

 

[Watchdog]

I don’t read this as the range having 50 employees, but that the Building having fewer than 50 employees makes the range Lawful.

I think you're right.