The Virginia Citizens Defense League is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians.
Philip has written extensively in support of Gun Owner Rights in addition to his on the ground activism throughout Virginia.
Philip Van Cleave believes in the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as a fundamental human right and is an unabashed supporter who has fought for the right to keep and bear arms for many years in Virginia and across the USA. Visit: www.vcdl.org
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Louisa, Halifax, Buchanan, Rappahannock, Greensville, and Russell counties are all sanctuaries now! So is the town of Exmore! HUGE turnouts continue! 30 Sanctuaries and counting!
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Governor Northam and his band of gun snatchers have proposed legislation for the 2020 session that would make law-abiding gun owners felons by July 2020.
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The auditorium is full inside the Pulaski County meeting and was full at 6:00, an hour before the meeting started. At least 300 standing outside on the steps and walks and sidewalks. We aren’t getting
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The Second Amendment Sanctuary movement continued to steamroll through Virginia as counties make their stand against Governor Northam’s & Democrat’s pending threat to gut the Second Amendment.
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So far we have 7 brand new 2A Sanctuary Counties in Virginia: Charlotte, Campbell, Carroll, Appomattox, Patrick, Pittsylvania, & Dinwiddie County. All so far have passed unanimously!
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Appomattox County is now the latest Second Amendment Sanctuary in Virginia. Congratulations! We now have FOUR sanctuaries and there are more are on the way this week.
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I have been conferring with one of Virginia Citizens Defense League’s attorneys and offer this general advice if approached by a store employee and/or the police while carrying in a business.
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Someone open carrying a handgun was approached by police and asked to sign a trespass document saying he acknowledges being banned for Walmart property anywhere in the U.S., indefinitely.
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It is no secret that the organization that runs the annual Steppin’ Out festival in Blacksburg, DBI, has been trying to ban guns and keep Virginia Citizens Defense League from having a presence.
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Often when the police show up at the scene of a shooting or an incident involving a firearm, they simply arrest everyone involved and let the courts or the DA decide.
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Your activism paid off, as a potential disaster has been averted for now. The battle is not over, but today was an important day for the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Senator Black has always been a strong believer in our right to keep and bear arms. Even though he has decided to retire, he’s not pulling any punches, even now, in fighting to protect innocent life.
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Virginia Citizens Defense League is officially going to have a Special Session Lobby Day on Tuesday, July 9, starting at 9 a.m. This event is critical! With razor-thin margins in the House and Senate.
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After these terrible events, a lot of people rush to judgment, blame the object, etc. However, I noticed something entirely different about these events this weekend.
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Initial responses from Virginia Republican leadership on the Democrats’ call for a special legislative session to push gun control are positive. That said, there is no guarantee that things can’t go..
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I look at hiding gun ownership as giving the gun controllers exactly what they want – gun owners going quietly into the night. I think we have to go in the other direction.
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I produced my letter with pictures of the bumpstocks. The other agent commented that he had turned his bumpstock in the week before. I was told that there were several agents in the office with..
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One man’s activism got the Board of Supervisors in King William, VA to reduce their CHP fee from $50 to $15. PLUS he got a letter to the editor published to tell everyone about the reduced fee!
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The problem was a severe one. If the officer checked VCIN, he was told that your CHP was expired or didn’t exist, respectively! That would put the CHP holder in a bad situation that was not his fault.
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The senators with the worst scores of 0% were Lionell Spruill, Scott Surovell, Jennifer MClellan, Mamie Lock, & the absolute bottom of the barrel was Louise Lucas, who 28 times voted wrong.
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Here’s the problem and why we need to get the NRA to walk away from Red Flag laws: NONE of the Red Flag bills in Congress, or anywhere else, have of the protections required by NRA.
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This Tuesday, March 26, 2019, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is going to be hearing a Red Flag gun-control/gun confiscation bill put in by Florida Republican Marco Rubio. Yes, Republicans.
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SB 1321, Hanger’s bill that would have banned a provider of Licensed Day Home from having a firearm on their person for self-defense, was DEFEATED by a 6 to 0 vote! That was it for bad bills this year