Several bills expand restrictions on certain firearms and how they can be carried, if signed into law.
Nathan Edwards
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Gun policy debate returns in Virginia legislature
HB 217 would prohibit the manufacture, sale, import, purchase and transfer of many semiautomatic rifles, pistols and shotguns that meet its newly expanded definition of “assault firearms.”