Restaurant guns bill headed to Kaine's desk

[Supertac45]

Hopefully, but I doubt it.

[DefensiveCarry.com]

[concealed]

The silliness of this whole thing is the fact that I can OC and drink and have no worries, yet cannot CC. If I CCed I would have no problem not drinking. I do not condone OC (we cannot discuss it here) so suffice it to say that I would rather not. However I have started to OC in every restaurant I go to now and I always order a drink as a toast to our wonderful Governor Kaine.

[DaveH]

More bills --

VA-ALERT:
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Here is where we stand on the last day of the regular legislative
session.

These bills that have passed the House and Senate and are on their way
to Governor Kaine's desk for signing, veto, or not signing (becomes
law without signing):

SB 1035 - Senator Hanger - restaurant ban repeal without any need to
notify an ABC manager. CHP holder cannot drink if carrying concealed.

HB 1655 - Delegate Carrico - Puts teeth in preemption. This bill was
weakened to allow a judge discretion as whether to require a locality
pay legal fees if they lose in court over a preemption issue. It is
still a step forward, as currently there is no hope of getting such
fees.

SB 1513 - Senator Smith - Puts teeth in preemption. This bill was
weakened to allow a judge discretion as whether to require a locality
pay legal fees if they lose in court over a preemption issue. It is
still a step forward, as currently there is no hope of getting such
fees.

HB 1851 - Delegate Lingamfelter - exempts active duty military from
One Handgun a Month.

SB 1383 - Senator Stolle - repeals state penalty for possession of an
unregistered silencer (federal law will still apply).

HB 2528 - Delegate Cole - requires localities that do "gun buy ups" to
have an ordinance to that effect and to sell the guns at public
auction to an FFL. The auction must be advertised, too. The final
version was weakened by Senator Stolle to allow a locality to destroy
the guns without an auction at all. However, it is still a step
forward in that it requires a locality to jump through some hoops to
do a buy-up and gives gun owners a chance to fight such a move by the
locality.

HB 2144 - Delegate Nutter - blocks the state police from giving out
CHP holder information, but does NOT block courts from doing the
same. We NEED to close off both sources and this bill is only a half-
way measure. ACTION ITEM: If anybody's local paper prints the names
and other information of CHP holders, let me know and I will make sure
the House and Senate hear about it until they understand that there is
a problem. If the press stops printing the names on their own (and
the media lobbyist swore to me that the Frredericksburg Freelance-Star
was not going to do that anymore), then so be it.

HB 2178 - Delegate E.T. Scott - prohibits convicted felons from
possessing ammunition, making such possession a felony. It is a bad
law as there is no intent to commit a crime required and it duplicates
federal law. Apparently one police officer complained that he would
have liked the powers given in this bill one time and Virginia rushes
off to create yet another law that we don't need.

SB 877 - Senator Martin - allows **retired** law enforcement officers
to carry concealed in a restaurant that serves alcoholic beverages and
even drink if they wish. It will be real interesting to see what the
Governor does with this bill for ex-government-employees vis-a-vis
Senator Hanger's restaurant ban repeal for the rest of us.

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I will be putting together a campaign to contact the Governor on both
the restaurant ban repeals (one for retired police and one for the
rest of us) and will advise shortly.


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