Virginia prosecutors refuse to enforce Spanberger's semiautomatic firearms ban, citing Constitution
More than a dozen county prosecutors across Virginia have declared they will not enforce Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger's ban on modern semiautomatic firearms, setting up one of the sharpest confrontations between local law enforcement and a state government over Second Amendment rights in recent memory.The law, SB 749, which Democrat Governor Spanberger signed on May 14, bans a list of common firearm features and labels weapons possessing them "assault firearms." Within days, pro-Second Amendment organizations, the National Rifle Association, the Second Amendment Foundation, and the Firearms Policy Coalition, filed legal challenges. But the courtroom fight is only half the story.
On the ground, the prosecutors who would be responsible for bringing cases under the new law are saying, one after another, that they simply won't do it.
Their reasoning is not political posturing. It is grounded in specific Supreme Court precedent, and in the text of both the U.S. and Virginia constitutions.
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