It's easy to look at the gun control laws passed in another state and think, "Well, at least it doesn't impact me." I vehemently oppose what's happened in California over the years, just as I vehemently oppose what's happened in Virginia in 2026, but since it doesn't affect me here in Georgia, it's easy to let it go when the dust settles.
The problems really get started when those terrible ideas don't stay put, but are instead pushed onto the rest of the nation.
In other words, remember reading about all of those new Virginia gun control laws and how much they suck? Their senators are trying to implement them for the entire nation now.
Virginia's two U.S. Senators have introduced a sweeping 53-page bill to bring the Commonwealth's new anti-gun plan to all 50 states.
U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D) introduced the "Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act" to Congress last Friday.
The bill's 17 sections encompass an entire framework of gun control schemes to include a federal ban on most popular semi-auto firearms and magazines capable of holding more than 15 cartridges, one-a-month gun rationing, establishing "red flag" gun seizures, instituting thousands of new 1,000-foot "no gun" zones, regulating firearm storage in personal vehicles, adopting restrictions on homemade firearms, and more.
Together, these measures mark one of the most comprehensive proposals aimed at standardizing regulations from coast to coast.
The bill, S.4399, has been introduced in the Senate, but that's about all so far. They just introduced it on Friday, though, so there hasn't been time.
Perhaps more importantly, though, it doesn't really matter all that much in the here and now because this thing is pretty much dead on arrival.
This is the Senate, where Republicans have control, and where even if they lose it, they still have the filibuster to block something like this from ever getting through. That is, unless the midterms are even worse for Republicans than is typically expected, and I can't really rule that out right now.
Even if this particular bill goes nowhere, though, it's clear that there's plenty of desire among the anti-gun Democrats to foist this insanity on the rest of us. They're really big about federalism when it applies to gun laws, unless the other levels of government don't like gun control. Then it's a case of shut up and do what you're told.
Based on recent Supreme Court precedents, it's unlikely that an assault weapon ban at the federal level would survive should the court hear it, but considering how cagey the Court has been on hearing an assault weapon ban case, it could be years before we see any movement, if we even see it then.
Of course, the Court could have addressed this a while back just by striking down assault weapon bans. They didn't, kicking that particular can down the road. Now, look at where we're at.
But we still have time. Right now, this isn't happening. It's posturing. It's trying to make the radical swing toward anti-gun state status look like a rational approach to a problem that the anti-gunners and their buddies in the media keep trying to reframe to make it worse than it is.
It will, however, be back.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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