In response to Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D-VA) proposed ban on modern sporting rifles, which gun-control activists call “assault weapons,” more than 80 counties in the Old Dominion have passed Second Amendment Sanctuary resolutions to protect gun owners. For the record, there are 95 counties total in Virginia.
After many of these resolutions were passed, Northam offered to add in a “grandfather clause” that would exempt current “assault weapon” owners from having to give up their guns as part of a government confiscation. Earlier this month, Northam spokeswoman Alena Yarmosky told The Virginia Mercury in a statement that current gunowners could keep their weapons if they registered them with the state.
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