Virginia – 1. A new bill has been introduced to protect gun owners when calling 9-1-1 to get help after a self-defense action.
Delegate Lee Ware has introduced an important bill that gives a person limited immunity from prosecution when they call 9-1-1 for the purpose of getting help after using, or attempting to use, justifiable force or justifiable deadly force to protect themselves. This prevents something that you might say, perhaps in an extremely stressed emotional state, that could be used against you in a court of law.
Summoning help after lawfully protecting yourself should NOT put you in legal jeopardy!
Click here to tell your Delegate to support Delegate Ware’s HB 2414:Â https://tinyurl.com/grbzzq3
2. Keep the pressure up on the bill that limits sharing CHP information with unfriendly states!
So far 2,374 of you have contacted your Senator in support of SB 1023. That’s not bad, but there are well over TEN TIMES that many of you receiving this Action Item!
Those of you with Senators who usually vote wrong on gun bills, WE NEED YOU ESPECIALLY to contact your Senator. The trouble is that everyone with such a Senator automatically assumes there is no point in contacting them and then NO ONE DOES! So the Senator assumes that there is little or no support in their district for gun rights.
That group-think and defeatism is hurting our cause. Some of those Senators can, and will, vote with us occasionally if they hear from enough gun owners in their district.
If you didn’t do so last week, WE NEED **ALL** OF YOU TO SEND THE MESSAGE BELOW TO YOUR SENATOR TO 1) DRUM UP SUPPORT AND 2) TO EDUCATE THE SENATORS ON THE NEW FOURTH CIRCUIT RULING.
This is one bill that many Senators, who normally are not good on guns, might well support!
Click here to send the pre-written message to your Senator and please do this NOW:
https://tinyurl.com/z8tayz3
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As a reminder this is the critical importance of SB 1023:
THE DANGER TO CHP HOLDERS
There have been some real problems with Virginia CHP holders being stopped in Maryland and the Virginia State Police telling Maryland law enforcement that the driver has a Virginia CHP.
There is a bill in the General Assembly that will put an end to that issue, BUT THE SITUATION HAS JUST GOTTEN EVEN MORE URGENT.
Two days ago the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, whose rulings affect Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina, said that during a stop an officer can frisk ANYONE AT WILL if he believes THEY HAVE A GUN, whether possessed LEGALLY OR ILLEGALLY – including being possessed by those who have a CHP!
So now, if you are stopped in Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, or South Carolina, and the officer finds out you have a CHP, he can frisk you without the need to have either reasonable, articulable suspicion or probable cause that you are armed AND dangerous.
This was a horrendous decision, but we CAN FIGHT BACK!
THE SOLUTION
Senator Stuart’s SB 1023 is the solution. SB 1023 prohibits the Virginia State Police from sharing a person’s CHP status with any state that does not honor a Virginia CHP. That makes perfect sense. If a state considers our CHPs to be nothing more than toilet paper, why even bother telling that state that you have such a “worthless” permit?
About Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL):
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right.
For more information, visit: www.vcdl.org.
Left wing nut jobs only enforce laws that they like. All else be damned
Right wing nut jobs only enforce laws they like. All else be damned. What the hell makes you think that conservatives are any better than liberals you wingnut. What makes you think that liberals don’t own firearms you wingnut . What makes you think that liberals don’t support the Second Amendment you wingnut . Your comment tells me that you are nothing more than a simpleminded, highly prejudiced wingnut. I’ll bet you a box of your favorite bullets that that I do more to promote and protect the Second Amendment then you do. And you would undoubtedly classify me as… Read more »
You can see the difference in left wing
And conservative (which I’m sure you call right wing.) The Tea Party didn’t burn and pillage like UC Berkley, or
Congress People not participating in a
Civic event like the Presidential Inauguration. Or even a distinguished body like the US Senate choosing to
Boycott Cabinet nominations. I could go one and one, but point made.
The difference is conservatives do not
Use childish temper tantrum. Or even leave the state like in Wisconsin during the battle with Gov. Scott Walker
I would support your bill, IF I lived in Virginia. I read it as a GOOD bill. Maryland is SUPPOSED to be a “may issue” state. However, Maryland is known as a MAY NOT STATE.
There is a problem with your logic in saying I would support the bill if I lived in Virginia because the anti-gun folks regardless of where they live call, e-mail, and write legislators in states they do not live in constantly. It is time that we as citizens who support our Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms must speak with one voice because as Benjamin Franklin once said if we do not all hang together we will all certainly hang separately.