Virginia repeals one-a-month limit on handgun purchases

[Judi Lynn]

Virginia repeals one-a-month limit on handgun purchases
By Matthew Ward | Reuters – 4 hrs ago.purchases

PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) - Virginia repealed a one-per-month limit on handgun purchases on Tuesday, less than five years after a mentally-deranged student used handguns to massacre 32 people at Virginia Tech University in the worst single act of gun violence in U.S. history.

Governor Bob McDonnell, who is high on the list of possible 2012 Republican vice presidential candidates, signed the controversial legislation into law.

The limit had been on the books since 1993, when it was enacted in an effort to curb gun-smuggling operations. Virginia had a reputation as a state where gunrunners could arrange to purchase a volume of guns to sell on the streets of cities such as Washington, D.C. and New York.

Earlier this month, the state Senate voted 21-19 and the House of Delegates voted 66-32 to repeal the limit.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/virginia-repeals-one-month-limit-handgun-purchases-033039053.html

[Nihil]

1. If only they'd buy well-made & reliable American guns ...

... instead of that cheap foreign rubbish that just doesn't last then they wouldn't need
to buy them so often ...

[onehandle]

2. Good timing. The straw gun sales to disturbed teenage boy market needed a boost.

See. Republicans do care about jobs.

[Kolesar]

3. Can't out-snark you this morning

I am not even going to try!

[lanlady]

4. Dishonoring the memory of the dead of Virginia Tech

For shame.

[Dr_Scholl]

5. How?

Please explain.

[hack89]

6. This law would have no impact on the VT shooting. nt

[-..__...]

10. Yes...

but it makes for good shameless exploitation and stirring up the anti-gun snake den.

[24601]

13. And was in effect before, during & after VT.

[bluedigger]

7. Excellent!

I've had my eyes on these for a while, now.

[-..__...]

8. 47 down... 3 to go.

CA, MD and NJ are the remaining holdouts on limiting handgun purchases.

[SWTORFanatic]

9. I'm not against private gun ownership but I can just hear it now

Clearly if someone at VA Tech was able to not only have 1 gun but 5 guns they could have really stopped Cho!

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Pod people have taken over the legislature

[underpants]

12. 66% of Virginians wanted to keep the law

http://blogs.roanoke.com/politics/2012/02/24/va-tech-survivors-families-seek-meeting-with-mcdonnell-about-handgun-law/

[slackmaster]

14. Maybe this will be sufficient motivation for them to vote in a new Legislature

[PavePusher]

15. What percentage of people supported segregation?

Does a simple majority automatically make something correct?

[underpants]

17. No but both opponents of this and opponents of segregation were right

that makes something correct.

[PavePusher]

18. Nicely declarative sentence, woefully lacking in evidence on the firearms law debate.

Care to try again?

[underpants]

19. No I got it right the first time

[PavePusher]

21. Keep telling yourself that. n/t

[ileus]

16. Now my fellow Virginias have the same rights as I've had for years.

CHP holders weren't affected, I could buy 500 a month if I desired and had the funds.

[Vinca]

20. Handy if you want to shoot yourself after having your ultrasound.