{"id":110994,"date":"2019-06-04T14:35:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=110994"},"modified":"2019-06-04T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T23:22:32","slug":"virginia-gov-ralph-northam-special-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/virginia-gov-ralph-northam-special-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Calls for Special Session to Ban Suppressors, Assault Weapons and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/NorthamGunControl-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"virginia-gov-ralph-northam-special-session\" title=\"Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Calls for Special Session to Ban Suppressors, Assault Weapons and More\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" title=\"Virginia Gov. 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Northam<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the wake of a mass killing at a municipal building in Virginia Beach Friday that left twelve dead, Gov. Ralph Northam is calling on lawmakers to meet for a special session to enact tougher gun laws. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo one should go to work, to school, or to church wondering if they will come home,\u201d said Gov. Northam. \u201cBut that is what our society has come to, because we fail to act on gun violence\u2026 I will be asking for votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The date for the session has yet to be scheduled but the legislative agenda is very clear.&nbsp; Gov. Northam said he would be asking the General Assembly to vote on all of the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Universal background checks;<\/li><li>A ban on assault weapons, to include suppressors and bump stocks;<\/li><li>An extreme risk protective order;<\/li><li>Reinstating the one-gun-a-month law;<\/li><li>Child access prevention;<\/li><li>Requiring people to report lost and stolen firearms; and<\/li><li>Expanding local authority to regulate firearms, including in government buildings.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNone of these ideas are radical,\u201d said Northam, who indicated that magazines with a capacity holding more than 10 rounds may also be on the chopping block. \u201cNone of them violate the Second Amendment. None of them would impair any of my fellow Virginia hunters or sportsmen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northam had proposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/virginia-governors-gun-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"virginia-gov-ralph-northam-special-session\" title=\"Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Calls for Special Session to Ban Suppressors, Assault Weapons and More\">similar package of gun control measures <\/a>in January of this year.&nbsp; But all stalled out in the GOP-controlled General Assembly. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor, a Democrat who campaigned on stricter gun laws in 2017, believes that Friday\u2019s tragedy created a \u201cnew level of urgency to act\u201d and if lawmakers can \u201csave one life because we acted now, it is worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is right to respond to this tragedy with decisive action,\u201d said Northam. \u201cLet Virginia set an example for the nation that we can respond to tragedy with action. That we can turn pain into purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The killer at Virginia Beach reportedly did not have a felony conviction nor any other disqualifying record that would keep him from purchasing a firearm from an FFL.&nbsp; In fact, ATF investigators said he lawfully purchased the pistols he used in the attack.&nbsp; One was bought in 2016, the other in 2018, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/content\/news\/Virginia-gov-to-call-special-session-on-guns-510806101.html?fbclid=IwAR3Wtftsfnw10-7NNtqJZG-EqNmi3fYh_Ao46sFgn6-RE0TI_mWz2jBOh_A\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"virginia-gov-ralph-northam-special-session\" title=\"Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Calls for Special Session to Ban Suppressors, Assault Weapons and More\">The Associated Press<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northam exclaimed, \u201cI want this to be the last time.\u201d\u00a0 But none of what the governor is proposing would have stopped the killer at Virginia Beach.\u00a0 More troubling, none of what he is proposing guarantees it will be the last mass killing, as Alan Gottlieb from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms observed in a recent press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a news flash for Northam,\u201d said\nCCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. \u201cThe killer in Virginia Beach had already passed\nmultiple background checks, including an enhanced check to legally purchase a\nsuppressor. The incident didn\u2019t involve a so-called \u2018assault weapon,\u2019 but two\nhandguns. There was no indication that the gunman was an extreme risk to\nanybody, and this awful event didn\u2019t involve a child gaining access to any\nfirearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo tell us, Ralph,\u201d he continued, \u201cjust what part of your extremist gun control wish list do you think would have prevented what happened in Virginia Beach?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat happened Friday in Virginia Beach was undeniably a tragedy,\u201d Gottlieb concluded, \u201cand it would be another tragedy for Northam to penalize millions of honest Virginia gun owners for the senseless act of a lone, disturbed individual. 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