Lawmakers amend bill banning guns in state buildings, Capitol Square (FILE) By Christina Amano Dolan | April 15, 2021 at 4:04 PM EDT - Updated April 15 at 7:57 PM
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia legislators recently accepted the governorâs substitute to a bill banning firearms on and near Capitol Square, as well as in state buildings. Lawmakers voted last year to ban firearms from the state Capitol.
Senate Bill 1381, introduced by Sen. Adam P. Ebbin, D-Alexandria, will make it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to possess or transport a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area or buildings owned or leased by the commonwealth. Any person convicted of a Class 1 misdemeanor may face a sentence of up to 12 months in jail, a fine up to $2,500, or both.
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Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring speaks to reporters after a hearing on the removal of a Confederate statue in Richmond last June. (Courthouse News photo/Brad Kutner)
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Lawmakers amend bill banning guns in state buildings, Capitol Square (FILE) By Christina Amano Dolan | April 15, 2021 at 4:04 PM EDT - Updated April 15 at 7:57 PM
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia legislators recently accepted the governorâs substitute to a bill banning firearms on and near Capitol Square, as well as in state buildings. Lawmakers voted last year to ban firearms from the state Capitol.
Senate Bill 1381, introduced by Sen. Adam P. Ebbin, D-Alexandria, will make it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to possess or transport a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area or buildings owned or leased by the commonwealth. Any person convicted of a Class 1 misdemeanor may face a sentence of up to 12 months in jail, a fine up to $2,500, or both.
BY MICHAEL MARTZ
Richmond Times-Dispatch
On the eve of the anniversary of the worst mass shooting in Virginia history, Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, both Virginia Democrats, are asking Congress to follow the state s lead in enacting restrictions on purchase and use of firearms.
Kaine, who was governor when a lone gunman killed 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech in 2007, joined with Warner, his predecessor as governor, to introduce legislation on Thursday that would use a package of gun control laws that Virginia enacted last year as the model for new federal laws on firearms.
The Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2021 would incorporate six proposals that Gov. Ralph Northam signed into law a year ago, a year after a gunman killed 12 people and wounded four others at a municipal building in Virginia Beach.