Anonymous
12/05/2021 19:57
Subject: VA law about securing guns
In NOVA, people leave their cars running and walk into stores. This is by far the safest place I have ever lived in my life. I'd be much more worried about being shot in DC or Maryland.
Anonymous
12/05/2021 19:53
Subject: Re:VA law about securing guns
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Long story, but I once had what I feared might be a loaded gun (wasn't sure if it was actually a gun or a toy replica) and I had to drive it out to VA from DC to have someone remove the "bullets" and determine whether it was real or not. It's super illegal to have an unlicensed gun in DC, much less a loaded one unsecured in your vehicle. The VA authorities explained that as soon as I crossed the state line marker on the Potomac River, everything would be perfectly legal if it turned out to be a real gun. (It was!) After that I knew there was no way I'd ever be interested in living in VA, especially with kids at home.
I often wonder if the NOVA people have any idea what's legal in their crazy state. I wouldn't live anywhere that people could be packing heat while going for a walk in a city park. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/she-was-my-constant-companion-no-charges-in-fatal-dog-shooting-on-virginia-park-trail/2016/10/27/4b5f504c-9c57-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html
Isn't there a lot more gun violence in DC than in VA?
Yes. Shockingly, criminals don’t care about the law. I’m laughing at the thought that people in dc or Maryland couldn’t “be packing heat while going for a walk in a city park.”
Anonymous
12/05/2021 19:17
Subject: Re:VA law about securing guns
Anonymous wrote:Long story, but I once had what I feared might be a loaded gun (wasn't sure if it was actually a gun or a toy replica) and I had to drive it out to VA from DC to have someone remove the "bullets" and determine whether it was real or not. It's super illegal to have an unlicensed gun in DC, much less a loaded one unsecured in your vehicle. The VA authorities explained that as soon as I crossed the state line marker on the Potomac River, everything would be perfectly legal if it turned out to be a real gun. (It was!) After that I knew there was no way I'd ever be interested in living in VA, especially with kids at home.
I often wonder if the NOVA people have any idea what's legal in their crazy state. I wouldn't live anywhere that people could be packing heat while going for a walk in a city park. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/she-was-my-constant-companion-no-charges-in-fatal-dog-shooting-on-virginia-park-trail/2016/10/27/4b5f504c-9c57-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html
Isn't there a lot more gun violence in DC than in VA?
Anonymous
12/05/2021 19:07
Subject: VA law about securing guns
Good point. I always ask about this before playdates. I know our gun is secured and loved at home but I have no Dora what kind of crazies we have among the parents of my kid’s friends.
So discounted that the Democratic legislature didn’t do more to protect kids from guns when we had the majority and the Governor’s mansion. It is going to be a dark, terrible 4 years in Virginia.
So discounted that the Democratic legislature didn’t do more to protect kids from guns when we had the majority and the Governor’s mansion. It is going to be a dark, terrible 4 years in Virginia.
Anonymous
12/05/2021 18:53
Subject: Re:VA law about securing guns
Long story, but I once had what I feared might be a loaded gun (wasn't sure if it was actually a gun or a toy replica) and I had to drive it out to VA from DC to have someone remove the "bullets" and determine whether it was real or not. It's super illegal to have an unlicensed gun in DC, much less a loaded one unsecured in your vehicle. The VA authorities explained that as soon as I crossed the state line marker on the Potomac River, everything would be perfectly legal if it turned out to be a real gun. (It was!) After that I knew there was no way I'd ever be interested in living in VA, especially with kids at home.
I often wonder if the NOVA people have any idea what's legal in their crazy state. I wouldn't live anywhere that people could be packing heat while going for a walk in a city park. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/she-was-my-constant-companion-no-charges-in-fatal-dog-shooting-on-virginia-park-trail/2016/10/27/4b5f504c-9c57-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html
I often wonder if the NOVA people have any idea what's legal in their crazy state. I wouldn't live anywhere that people could be packing heat while going for a walk in a city park. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/she-was-my-constant-companion-no-charges-in-fatal-dog-shooting-on-virginia-park-trail/2016/10/27/4b5f504c-9c57-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html
Anonymous
12/05/2021 11:47
Subject: VA law about securing guns
56.2Anonymous wrote:Section 18.2
Anonymous
12/05/2021 11:44
Subject: VA law about securing guns
Section 18.2
Anonymous
12/05/2021 11:15
Subject: VA law about securing guns
And yet 21 other states have more lenient gun laws than Virginia.
Anonymous
12/05/2021 11:15
Subject: VA law about securing guns
And now with Youngkin and a Republican house, we will have even looser gun laws.
Anonymous
12/05/2021 11:12
Subject: VA law about securing guns
That is nuts.
Anonymous
12/05/2021 10:06
Subject: VA law about securing guns
Wow
Anonymous
12/05/2021 10:00
Subject: VA law about securing guns
In case you don’t know, there is no law in Virginia that says that guns have to be secured away from children. I have been part of CPS calls where a troubled child has displayed a gun over video chat to classmates, and CPS would not take the case, as no laws were broken. I had a child bring live ammunition to school, and CPS wouldn’t take the case. This is horrific.