Virginia – -(Ammoland.com)- Governor McAuliffe now believes he can prohibit guns at rallies which are held at the Robert E. Lee Monument on Monument Avenue in Richmond. That statue, unlike the other statues in the area, belongs to the Commonwealth and not to Richmond.
The Governor has issued another ‘emergency‘ regulation prohibiting guns during rallies by tying the condition of “no guns or weapons” to issuance of a permit. A rally of 10 or more people at this monument requires a permit.
Virginia Citizens Defense League takes no position on the monument itself, but we do take umbrage at the Governor thinking he can prohibit guns there considering that he has no legal authority to do so from the General Assembly.
The last rally at the statue did not ban guns and there was no violence. The Governor has a habit of abusing his powers by issuing “emergency orders” when there is no emergency.
Rest assured that Virginia Citizens Defense League and its lawyers are looking into this.
Here is a story on this matter: Emergency rules go into effect for rallies at Richmond Lee monument
Virginia officials have enacted emergency rules on rallies at the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, ending a temporary ban on political demonstrations Gov. Terry McAuliffe imposed after the violence in Charlottesville.
The governor’s office announced Monday that regulations have gone into effect laying out a more restrictive process for groups applying for permits to demonstrate around the statue, the first and largest Confederate monument on Richmond’s iconic boulevard.
After the violent Aug. 12 incident in Charlottesville, where white nationalist groups rallied around a statue of Lee in a downtown park, McAuliffe suspended permits for events at the Richmond Lee statue, which is owned by the state.
The new rules ban guns and other weapons, limit crowd sizes to 500, require permits for any rally expected to draw 10 or more people, and restrict demonstrations to certain hours.
The governor created a state task force to craft new rules for rallies at the Lee statue. The emergency regulations took effect Friday and will remain in place for at least 18 months while the state Department of General Services takes public comment and prepares the final rules. The public comment period will begin Dec. 11 and remain open until Jan. 10.
The state is also considering changing the permitting process for events at Capitol Square, and the governor’s office invited public comment on rules for rallies at the Capitol.
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You asshole’s in Virginia deserve Everything you get for electing this type of Scum to be your Governor.
This f***ing idiot should be aware that the last time a governor such as he is was HANGED by his people for even trying to do this! Should he be terminated? Either he capitulates or YES, be terminated by the citizens with extreme bias!
This half-wit needs to read the Constitution. He is violating all sorts of rights of the people. Who does he think he is?
Yep it’s embarassing that I am from VA. It was SO nice that far Yanks retired here & their brainwashed children have overrun populous areas (NVA, Arlington, Richmond, Newport) AND you are left with votes which overpower the rest of the state in an election. Exacerbating that of course are illegals, their children and hundreds of relatives. The Yanks were trying to escape taxes but began voting on the tax and spend (Dems) politicians in all levels of gov. Check out how long Dems have Controlled FFX County. McAwful beat the guy who sucessfully stopped the Dem Fed EPA that… Read more »
Terry McAwful doesn’t have much time left to make the people of Virginia march in lockstep. I don’t believe I will go to Va. anytime soon as long as there is a commie type government there. You may be locked up for something you did not know you were doing wrong.
At Charlottesville there was zero violence involving firearms. Those with arms were there to provide calm.
Maybe the governor should ban cars and trucks at rallies?
Locations where guns are allowed or restricted is codified in Virginia Law. The Governor cannot make or modify law, only the legislature can. If he wants he can get the court system to rule on the law but he can’t go out and single handedly change it, Our Governor is cut from the Clinton cloth.
OBTW on these rallies; they can agree to anything but since the rally organizers have no control (i.e. the Charlottesville rally) over who or what groups show up — this would be meaningless.
If this two-watt-bulb-for-a-brain is so certain that disarming responsible, law-abiding citizens (particularly for no reason other than his personal whim) is such a world-class idea… let that loser come try to personally disarm us. Not his police department, or his state police, or his security team… HIM!!
Of course, it’s too much to ask that he would be intelligent enough to supply his own body bag…
Terry and Jerry. East and West. Scum and scumbag.
Perhaps banning guns during a crisis can be done, but only if he can prove that a crisis actually exists. None of the fake stuff the left has been using.
However, my view is in keeping with the authors, James Madison and George Mason, which says that when there is a crisis it’s exactly the right time for the guns to be brought out into the light in order to reset everything.