Virginia – -(Ammoland.com)- A series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests have been issued to get to the bottom of Attorney General Herring’s advice to the Virginia State Police (VSP), and VSP’s acceptance of that advice, to pull recognition and reciprocity with 25 states, affecting 6 MILLION CHP holders.
Paul A. Prados was one of several people who issued some of those FOIA requests and he has found some very troubling connections between the Attorney General’s office, the VSP, a Republican Senate leader, and the anti-gun Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV).
Paul wrote two articles on the information that his FOIA requests brought out (links below to the articles).
What really bothers me is the access and help Lori Hass, Virginia Director for CSGV, got from two people who have just retired: Lt. Colonel Robert Kemmler with the VSP and Republican Senator Walter Stosch, who represented Henrico and Hanover.
Last year Delegate Lee Ware introduced HB 1329 for VCDL. That bill would have honored permits from all states. (A similar bill has been introduced by Ware this year.)
Stosch, the VSP, and CSGV appear to have colluded to raise a FALSE issue to kill HB 1329 by having it sent to a finance committee where it should never have been sent. And, right on cue, the bill died because no appropriation was made (nor was it planned that there would be an appropriation).
The false claim was that honoring the permits from all states would mean fewer people would get a Virginia non-resident CHP and that would cost the state $339,500 a year. There’s one problem – the money from those permits was meant to reimburse the VSP for the cost of processing the permits. The state should not see any kind of profit from permits, but should only break even.
If the VSP was really concerned about loss of income from non-resident permits, then why would they devalue those non-resident permits they way they just did, by making them significantly less useful? Instead of getting Virginia non-resident permits, people are flocking to get Utah non-resident permits, which are cheaper, honored here, and also honored in some of the states that we are either losing or might lose on February 1.
Lori Haas has been the Governor’s patsy in helping to pay back Michael Bloomberg since he was elected – Lori was even on his transition team. So finding out that she was working with Herring was no surprise whatsoever.
But my faith in the LEADERSHIP of the VSP continues to be shaken. VSP is supposed to be non-partisan, but I don’t feel they can be trusted to give the General Assembly advice on police matters right now. Not seeing how they have become so tainted with political activism that they are working against the interests of the Commonwealth and its citizens.
And just as bad, a leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, nonetheless, stabbing trusting gun owners in the back.
There are more shoes waiting to drop, stay tuned.
This discovery has only stiffened VCDL’s resolve to undo what Herring, Walter Stosch, and the VSP under Colonel W. Steven Flaherty and Lt. Col. Kemmler, have done to gun owners.
We need a tidal wave of gun owners telling their Senator, regardless of party, to support recognition of ALL permits from other states and to do so THIS YEAR. We will probably need to override a veto, but this issue has resonated so hard that it might well take on a life of its own.
Lobby Day is Monday January 19th 2016 at 8:30 AM.
Here’s the links to the articles:
- https://thebullelephant.com/unwrapping-the-unwanted-christmas-present/
- https://thebullelephant.com/the-unwanted-christmas-present-clearing-the-obstacles/
About Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL):
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right.
For more information, visit: www.vcdl.org.
ALL legal CHL licensee’s should open carry in Virginia. They will see more guns …… Wake up America! Tyranny is within our doors
If America wants to maintains their freedoms and protection from thuds and mental cases with weapons, then they better arm themselves and not disarm those who are willing to protect their unearned freedoms. Yes, unearned…freedom is an earned state, not an entitlement. If you want freedom in this country, earn it by either (1) legally arming yourself, or (2) stand up for the citizens willing to do it for you. Otherwise, you’re just another socialist puppet at the mercy of a tyrannical government. The honorable intent of weapons are methods of defense against evil. Evil cannot be defeated by a… Read more »
The governor and his minions are clintonites and received funds from them, Bloomberg, and other groups who support Clinton’s gun grab used in Australia. I fear for OUR nation if this witch is elected to live in OUR White House with her dirt baby husband. I have an Army buddy who lives in the hills of Southwest Virginia & I can only imagine how he feels about what is happening to his beautiful state. I am not a citizen of Virginia, but I do live in Alabama, and I cannot believe what has happened to this once proud southern state.… Read more »
If you look at their faces you noticed at a glance their higher levels of pre potency and insecurity… You can noticed they were they kids pushed at the school, etc,and now they’re having their “turn”. But everything always come, through history, to disarm the population so you can do whatever, the government, they want with you. Did anybody noticed how police brutality suddenly stopped in the South when those folks over there started showing up in the protests with rifles and shotguns? It is very easy to repress and killed an unarmed man or woman; and that is precisely… Read more »
This doesn’t surprise me. Twenty years ago I had a conversation with a senior state Trooper in Richmond who didn’t think anyone should have the right to carry a concealed weapon or own a handgun period. As for Flaherty and Kemmler, they are just politicians who wear the uniform of a Trooper.They played all the unseemly games of politics to achieve their rank. As for Stosch, it just goes to show that you can’t assume that having an R behind their name makes any politician less anti gun. Voters need to thoroughly vet their candidates as to their position on… Read more »
Virginia is no longer in my travel plans until it gets its head out of its rectal depths.
We as the people have the right to keep and bare arms. That was put into the Constitution byourefathers the people would be able to protect their selves against any threat, “Foreign or Domestic”. The domestic is not just to protect yourself from thugs that would come in your house but anywhere you are and it was especially put in the Constitution to be able to protect against a tyrannical government !! The government that we have in nothing more that a Mob syndicate that has legalized itself to do what ever it wants and not be held accountable !!!!… Read more »
I just wonder how Texas CHL made that Virginia cut !
Section 6 of the Virginia Constitution ” That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assembled for the public good.” So you are denied the right to carry your property to be militia,… Read more »
Looking at their pictures we can see Progressives are all the same, they just have different faces. LOL
This doesn’t only affect those people in Virginia. It also affects everyone who previously had reciprocity with Virginia.