Virginia Is Not For 2A Lovers  by Tom Reynolds

President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has been forming a division to deal with states that threaten our 2nd Amendment rights.  That’s a big deal!  Virginia is one such state and we will now see if the ‘Big Deal’ is the ‘Real Deal’ by putting words into actions.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon sent a letter to Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) which explains the situation: “This letter provides formal notice that the Civil Rights Division will commence litigation in the event the Commonwealth of Virginia enacts certain bills that unconstitutionally limit law-abiding Americans' individual right to bear arms...President Trump issued Executive Order 14206 making clear that this Administration will take affirmative steps to ensure that Second Amendment rights "must not be infringed." 

“Unfortunately, Virginia appears poised to infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to enjoy and use AR-15 rifles for lawful purposes by making it a crime to purchase and sell them…This Civil Rights Division will seek to enjoin any attempt to infringe the right of law-abiding Virginians to acquire constitutionally protected arms that are possessed by literally tens of millions of Americans.” 

“The General Assembly has forwarded to you over 20 bills that restrict Second Amendment rights. I urge you to reconsider allowing any bill that would infringe on the lawful use of protected firearms by law abiding citizens to become law in an effort to avoid unnecessary litigation.”

This is probably the first time that the Federal Government has threatened to step in before a bill becomes law and warned a governor that the feds will defend our 2A rights.  The DOJ says it will back up its words with litigation.”

Over the weekend, Spanberger signed some of the anti-2A laws and sent some back for clarification, (before she will probably sign them.)

Dhillon said in a separate statement, “I'm hiring up and staffing up in our Second Amendment section…(Spanberger's) a leftist and she doesn't like guns or gun rights. You know, former CIA operative, and so she's all about big government. And so she'll sign that and then we'll end up challenging it.”

Spanberger was warned and chose to ignore that warning.  We shall see what the DOJ does.  Unlike Obama, Trump means it when he draws a line-in-the-sand.  And unlike private parties needing to have deep financial resources in order to sue a state, the DOJ can match Virginia lawyer for lawyer and dollar for dollar.

Spanberger says Trump is doing this to distract from higher gas prices. Spanberger’s Democrat Party is proposing a number of tax hikes which will take as much -if not more - money from her citizens than higher gas prices.