And in other news, the Biden administration is calling for additional gun control measures, including the repeal of legal immunity for gun manufacturers.

The Senate has already passed a number of gun control bills.

President Joe Biden is taking executive action on gun control. He unveiled steps the administration will immediately take. But Biden says he wishes he could do even more. 

Previously Northam has indicated that he would sign gun control measures into law.

Ralph Northam’s proposed gun control bills Monday, as the state continues to be the center of a fierce battle in the nation's gun debate.

Later, White House press secretary Jen Psaki suggested to reporters that Biden could issue an executive order related to gun control, although she didn't specify any details.

to gun control.

Even though the gun control laws failed at the time, Northam has been clear that once the Democratic Party assumed the majority, he would resubmit the new gun control laws.

The Democrat-controlled Senate voted for the measure, SB240, on Wednesday along a party-line vote of 21-19, WHSV reported.

Guns and Crime According to public security expert Bene Barbosa, author of the book, “Lied to Me About Disarmament,” gun control only favors people who don't follow the law.

"I think that if there's a mandate in Virginia, it's that they don't want gun control. We don't want gun control," he told The Epoch Times.

However, many others claim the real problem is insufficient gun laws, and more gun control is the answer.

Gun rights groups told The Epoch Times that the state legislature is ignoring a large majority of Virginians who they say ardently oppose all gun control measures. 

in opposing gun control legislation," she said via email.

Gun Control More than 60 bills regarding guns, many focused on limiting the right to bear them, were introduced in Virginia this year. The most prominent one was Senate Bill No. 16.

Northam has indicated previously that he would sign gun control measures into law. 

Cekada said that in 2024 data from the ATF’s Demand Letter 2 Program (DL2) was provided to gun control/gun safety groups and was used for a “name-and-shame” campaign.

Gun rights groups told The Epoch Times that the state legislature is ignoring a large majority of Virginians who they say ardently oppose all gun control measures. 

Gun rights groups say they will continue to challenge the new gun control measures signed into law recently by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, in some cases by directly taking it to the courts.

Stanley said he asked Saslaw which particular legislation he was alluding to, in which the majority leader responded, "gun control."

President Trump mentioned that he is considering all sides weighing in on gun control including Democrats, Republicans, the NRA, and gun owners. “We’re dealing with everybody.

They are part of a long tradition that gun control is a form of race control. David Kopel is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington. This article is adapted from his textbook “Firearms Law and the Second Amendment.”

Gun control measures generally face opposition from defenders of the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Lay said he took into account discussions with sports shooters, hunters and victim advocates calling for greater gun controls.

Ralph Northam, a Democrat, is going to suffer backlash at the polls in 2020 after the Democratic-controlled legislature proposed a series of sweeping gun control measures that prompted thousands of people to turn out and demonstrate at the state Capitol

Mass shootings are usually followed by an increase in gun sales, due to buyers’ safety concerns or because people expect a backlash to ownership from gun control advocates.

(Scott Eisen/Getty Images) Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who just joined the race, is also known for his gun control advocacy after founding the group Everytown for Gun Safety.

Trump called the shooter “a very sick person,” but said background checks on gun buyers wouldn't have prevented recent gun violence.

"Compared to all of the gun control proposals proposed as 'solutions' to the horror of these random mass murders, the repeal of 'gun-free zones' is the simplest, least expensive, most logical and is morally imperative," according to the letter.

Ralph Northam said a package of eight gun control bills will likely be passed in January when both state houses turn blue following the elections this week, adding that his administration is working on a plan to confiscate certain firearms from gun owners