Jon Butler

SB727 just passed the General Assembly and is now headed to the Governor. A bill to prohibit transporting AR15’s. The substitute passed on SB727 removes the word “loaded.” That means the prohibition now applies to any qualifying firearm — loaded or unloaded — on any public street, road, sidewalk, or place open to the public. Read that again. Under the plain text of this bill, a law-abiding Virginian driving to a gun range with an unloaded AR-15 in their car could be committing a Class 1 misdemeanor. This bill doesn’t target criminals. It criminalizes ordinary gun owners. Democrats passed not one bill to penalize criminals who misuse firearms - and have now locked in on telling Virginians that if they simply put their AR15 in the car to go target shooting - they will go to jail for up to 1 year. This is the first test for the Governor to show us who she is. What a shameful disgrace.

What’s clear from the Maduro raid and today’s strikes is that forever wars were a choice.

You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

Indiana Republicans: "We can't do redistricting because we're too principled and Trump is really mean." Virginia Democrats: "We are going to draw a district that connects Arlington with Augusta and Goochland and we simply do not care what you think about that."