{"id":55193,"date":"2016-03-26T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T14:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=55193"},"modified":"2016-03-26T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T13:44:50","slug":"va-governor-veto-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/va-governor-veto-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_55194\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/McAullife-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55194\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/McAullife-1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.  (Photo: Salon.com)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/McAullife-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/McAullife-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/McAullife-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. (<em>Photo: Salon.com<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe values his ability to undermine the will of his constituents, and yesterday he <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.virginia.gov\/newsroom\/newsarticle?articleId=14724\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\">announced<\/a> his intention to keep that power intact.<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe vetoed <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?ses=161&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1096&amp;submit=GO\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\">House Bill 1096<\/a>, legislation that would have prohibited, \u201cany state entity from adopting or enforcing any rule, regulation, policy, or administrative action governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carrying, storage, or transporting of firearms, ammunition, or components or combinations thereof unless expressly authorized by statute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a mouthful. Here it is in layman\u2019s terms: HB 1096 would have 1) prohibited the governor from passing anti-gun executive orders and 2) given Virginia\u2019s Congress sole authority to enact gun laws (\u201cstatutes\u201d) for Virginians. By vetoing the bill, McAuliffe is preserving his ability to go around Congress and disregard the will of Virginia residents.<\/p>\n<p>As the NRA-ILA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20160324\/virginia-governor-vetoes-pro-gun-legislation\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\">points out<\/a>, HB 1096 \u201cwas an important response to the Governor\u2019s Executive Order 50, which banned firearms in many state buildings and denied citizens their right to self-defense on that property.\u201d Virginia legislators saw how far McAuliffe was willing to go to erode Second Amendment rights, and they crafted legislation to ensure such attacks would never happen in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, sponsored by Del. Michael J. Webert, R-Fauquier, passed the House of Delegates on a vote of 63-35 and cleared the Senate on a vote of 21-17. Unfortunately, as the Richmond Times-Dispatch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/government-politics\/article_c2b88459-d25c-5eda-8fed-79d03aba99f3.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\">reports<\/a>, Republicans do not have the votes to override the veto.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-gun lobby does not have the support of the American people. In state legislatures as well as the national Congress, anti-Second Amendment bills have failed time and again. And instead of working through proper legislative channels, these groups have resorted to executive orders meant to force an anti-gun worldview down the throats of law-abiding Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s anti-gun executive action has received extensive media coverage, but McAullife is not the only governor to follow Obama\u2019s lead. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee recently issued his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.wa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/exe_order\/eo_16-02.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\">set of rules<\/a> that, among other things, more strictly enforce Washington&#8217;s expanded background check laws. The orders don\u2019t accomplish much, as this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/blogs\/slog\/2016\/01\/06\/23358315\/heres-what-governor-jay-inslees-executive-order-on-gun-violence-will-do\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\">anti-gun website complains<\/a>, but the mindset is still troubling. If a state legislature (aka, The People) refuses to act, the governor must step in and impose his will.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon Governor Kate Brown also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FCCYnZnly2c\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\">announced<\/a> her intention to issue executive orders on gun control. She\u2019s sparse on the details, but says she plans to \u201cexplore what might be achieved through my executive powers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another. Last December Connecticut Governor Daniel P. Malloy <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/Departments_and_Agencies\/Office_of_the_Governor\/Press_Room\/Press_Releases\/2015\/12-2015\/Gov__Malloy_Intends_to_Sign_Executive_Order_to_Ban_the_Sale_of_Firearms_in_Connecticut_to_Those_on_Government_Watch_Lists\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\">announced<\/a> his intention to sign an executive order to banning the sale of firearms to those on government watch lists. The announcement specifically mentions the \u201cno-fly list,\u201d which American citizens can find themselves on without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/travel\/2015\/09\/09\/8-ways-can-end-up-on-no-fly-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\">any kind of due process<\/a>. To deny Second Amendment rights based upon this criteria is a clear violation of those rights.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bloomberg and the anti-gun community have made no attempt to hide their intention of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/04\/us\/politics\/state-focus-and-infusion-of-funding-buoy-gun-control-advocates.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"va-governor-veto-legislation\" title=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\">pursuing their agenda at the state level<\/a>. If we want to maintain our right to keep and bear arms, we cannot neglect the actions of our governors and state legislatures.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> <em>This article was a submission from freelance writer Jordan Michaels.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe values his ability to undermine the will of his constituents, and yesterday he announced his intention to keep that power intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":55194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,25,216,240],"tags":[132,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation -\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/va-governor-veto-legislation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VA Governor Vetoes Pro-Gun Legislation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe values his ability to undermine the will of his constituents, and yesterday he announced his intention to keep that power intact.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/va-governor-veto-legislation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-26T14:40:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-19T13:44:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/McAullife-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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