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Virginia legislators propose gun purchase waiting period after Walmart mass shooting
Virginia contemplate obligatory ‘cooling off interval’ for gun purchases
Ought to there be a compulsory “cooling-off interval” when folks go to buy a gun? FOX 5’s Josh Rosenthal spoke to a Virginia lawmaker who believes so, plus the president of the Virginia Residents Protection League who says no.
MCLEAN, Va. – Ought to there be a compulsory “cooling-off interval” when folks go to buy a gun?
It’s one among a number of proposals involving weapons at the moment being debated by Virginia lawmakers.
“We have to act, and I promised these households that that’s what I might do,” defined Del. Cliff Hayes. He represents Chesapeake, Virginia, the place police say a Walmart supervisor fatally shot six co-workers in November with a gun he’d bought hours earlier than.
If handed, Hayes’ laws would create a three-day ready interval if you buy a gun — just like legal guidelines already on the books in Maryland and D.C.
“We now have bought to have a look at this instance of this Walmart taking pictures as a possibility to decelerate or curb the possibility for that situation taking place once more,” Hayes instructed FOX 5.
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Others, nonetheless, strongly disagree.
WASHINGTON, USA – JANUARY 9: AR-15 type rifles and shotguns on the market at Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly, Va., USA on January 9, 2015. (Picture by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Company/Getty Photos)
“Generally, an individual is shopping for a gun as a result of they’re beneath fast risk,” stated Philip Van Cleave, who’s the president of the Virginia Residents Protection League, which organized a rally for gun rights Monday in Richmond. They might have simply discovered that their ex-spouse is planning on killing them. They want a gun. Nicely if it’s a must to wait three days, that is perhaps three days too lengthy.”
“I don’t know what a part of shall not be infringed our associates on the opposite facet don’t perceive,” Del. John McGuire stated on the occasion.
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It stays to be seen whether or not any important gun laws will make it to the governor’s desk this legislative session, with Republicans controlling the Home of Delegates and Democrats answerable for the Senate.