The Virginia governor on Wednesday said he was temporarily banning all guns and weapons from the area around the Capitol in Richmond ahead of a major gun rights demonstration set for next week. But we must also keep the public, as well as those who work around Capitol Square, safe,” Northam said. More than 125 counties, cities and towns across the state have passed “second amendment sanctuary” resolutions, pledging to respect gun owners’ rights and to not enforce any state gun laws deemed to be unconstitutional. Gun rights activists in Virginia also pointed to Northam’s response to a question in early November about whether he supported confiscating assault weapons from citizens who already owned them. “I’ll work with the gun violence activists, and we’ll work [on] that.

Source: The Guardian January 15, 2020 20:38 UTC