After an exhaustive review, he invalidated 25 of the 30 concealed weapons reciprocity agreements that Virginia has with other states.
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After Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring made a decision to unilaterally dismantle the commonwealth reciprocity agreements for concealed firearm licenses, the National Rifle Association is claiming the move will affect as many as 6.3 million permit holders. The attorney general says reciprocity for North Carolina permit holders will end February 1, 2016.
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Herring, who is a Democrat, says the state will continue to recognize permits from Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. He went on to point out that as president, he would ensure that the Second Amendment rights of Americans were protected.
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State Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, also condemned Herring for what he called “a unilateral, politically motivated executive action that seriously limits the rights of those Virginians who have concealed weapon permits”.
“Evenly, consistently and fairly enforcing Virginia’s concealed handgun permit law, as we are now doing, means that it will be more hard for potentially risky individuals to hide their handguns here in Virginia and that will make Virginians safer, especially Virginian law enforcement”, Herring said.
Six of the states-Florida, Louisiana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wyoming-will stop accepting Virginia concealed carry permits because their laws “require mutual recognition of permits”. Those states hand out permits to people who are barred under the Virginia law, such as fugitives, convicted stalkers and drug dealers, which undermines the state’s law and puts residents at risk, he said.
“The real losers of the Virginia Attorney General’s decision are law-abiding gun owners in half the states in our country”.
In Virginia, applicants may pass an online course to obtain a concealed gun permit. Louisiana, Florida, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Dakota and Wyoming will no longer do so once the reciprocity agreement is no longer in effect.
Virginia Democrats said the new policy is simply enforcement of the state’s own gun rules.
“Hopefully we can overcome those vetoes”, Gilbert said.
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Lori Haas, state director for the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, welcomed Herring’s announcement as a long overdue step.
