More than 100 Virginia cities and counties have declared themselves safe havens for gun owners

Dozens of Virginia counties and cities declare themselves refugees to defend the Second Amendment to the US Constitution (it guarantees the right to own weapons), opposing proposals from the state legislature to introduce new restrictions on the possession of firearms. Writes about this Fox News.

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The movement garnered so many supporters that Virginia attorney Mark Herring issued an advisory opinion, reminding residents that such resolutions on “shelters” were not valid.

“I believe that these resolutions have no legal force,” Herring said. “I also believe that local governments and local constitutional officials cannot repeal state laws and must comply with measures to prevent violence with weapons.”

More than 100 cities, towns and districts have decided to become a haven for weapons.

The controversy arose just before the Democrats for the first time since 1996 established control of the Senate and House of Representatives of Virginia. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has already promised to approve a "restriction on the carrying of firearms."

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The new General Assembly is expected to vote on two bills, in particular SB 18 and SB 16, which prohibit the possession of assault weapons, raising the minimum purchase age to 21 years and require verification of data for any transfer of firearms.

“This is an invasion of personal human rights,” said Jim Wood, the owner of an arms store in Staunton.

Wood said the Second Amendment "explicitly states that we are permitted to bear arms."

“When they begin to disassemble it into parts, then suddenly it translates into laws against weapons that are already adopted in some states,” he said.

The Virginia Citizens Protection League (VCDL), a weapons rights group, claims that 85 out of 95 Virginia counties have already approved so-called asylum measures. At least nine cities and 17 towns have done the same.

The group, among other things, is planning a protest on January 20 at the steps of the Capitol. The VCDL has posted photos showing crowds at observer council meetings in more than a dozen settlements.

The VCDL has posted a video showing the rapid growth of refugee resolutions since November 2019, when Democrats gained their majority in state power.

States throughout the United States, including Florida, California, New Mexico, and Washington, have passed or considered similar measures.

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"The ban on weapons that can be introduced in the state will inevitably violate the rights of law-abiding citizens to store and carry weapons that are guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the US Constitution," the VCDL said.

Governor Northam did not seem to be bothered by such a reaction from the population. “I don’t think it’s worth being afraid of something,” he summed up.

But according to VCDL President Philip Van Cleave, the Democrats woke up the "sleeping giant" and "declared war on Virginia's gun owners."

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