Dem Governor’s Plan To Ban Guns Blows Up In Her Face

Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s efforts to enact a sweeping gun-control agenda have been placed on hold by courts in June, while the state Legislature pushed back the effective date of another law.

Since Thursday, judges in Lancaster County and Washington County issued preliminary injunctions preventing enforcement of a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms, while Spanberger had to request that the state Legislature delay the effective date of a ban on carrying such firearms. The National Rifle Association trumpeted their legal success in a Monday evening post on X.

“The NRA’s world-class legal team delivered a clear, powerful argument demonstrating that Abigail Spanberger’s gun ban is a blatant constitutional infringement on the rights of law-abiding Virginians,” NRA-ILA Executive Director John Commerford said in a statement released by the gun-rights group.

The Virginia General Assembly approved Spanberger’s proposed amendments to a budget bill, which included the one-year delay on the “carry ban,” Monday.

Spanberger and Democratic Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones did not respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation