Re: Beat your GF and keep your gun...the Virginia way!
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morons everywhere
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Date: March 25, 2015 11:55AM
According to Bromley, unlike federal law, in Virginia individuals convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence are not prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition, increasing the risk for lethality in domestic violence situations.
---- Someone should tell this moron about the Supremacy clause.
Bromley says federal law prohibits these same offenders from possessing any firearm or ammunition and that violation of this law is a federal criminal offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison, but Virginia law has no such restrictions. And because local police have no jurisdiction to enforce federal law, domestic violence offenders under Virginia law can legally maintain possession of their weapons after a conviction.
----- No, as he just pointed out, it is illegal under federal law for these people to possess firearms.