{"id":95967,"date":"2020-02-17T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=95967"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:50","slug":"gun-nutz-celebrate-victoryvirginia-lawmakers-reject-assault-weapons-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=95967","title":{"rendered":"Gun Nutz Celebrate Victory, Virginia lawmakers reject assault-weapons ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/virginia-assault-weapons-ban-fails-in-legislature\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/richmond-rally-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bill backed by Gov. Ralph Northam that would ban the sale of assault-style weapons in Virginia failed on a committee vote Monday morning, setting back one of the biggest priorities for the newly minted Democrat-controlled government in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A bill backed by Gov. Ralph Northam that would ban the sale of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/personal-freedoms\/second-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assault-style<\/a>\u00a0weapons in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virginia<\/a>\u00a0failed on a committee vote Monday morning, setting back one of the biggest priorities for the newly minted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democrat<\/a>-controlled government in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A crowd of gun-rights activists packed into the committee room cheered as the vote came in, with four moderate Democrats joining Republicans to shelve\u00a0the bill until next year.\u00a0Heated exchanges over guns have dominated this year&#8217;s legislative session. They were also a key topic\u00a0of last year&#8217;s legislative elections \u2013\u00a0particularly after\u00a0a mass shooting in Virginia Beach\u00a0claimed a dozen lives \u2013\u00a0and gun control groups heavily funded Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry,\u00a0 sometimes I just can&#8217;t help myself.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/virginia-assault-weapons-ban-fails-in-legislature\">Virginia lawmakers reject Northam&#8217;s assault-weapons ban, as Dems balk | Fox News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill backed by Gov. Ralph Northam that would ban the sale of assault-style weapons in &hellip; <a title=\"Gun Nutz Celebrate Victory, Virginia lawmakers reject assault-weapons ban\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=95967\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gun Nutz Celebrate Victory, Virginia lawmakers reject assault-weapons ban<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":95968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,156,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-guns","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95971,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95967\/revisions\/95971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}