Quote of the Day
Virginia has recently been featured in a lot of headlines about gun control, for all the wrong reasons. A number of them have mentioned a federal gun control bill pending in the U.S. Senate, sponsored by Tim Kaine (D) and Mark Warner (D) of Virginia. Dubbed “The Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2026,” it tries to portray Virginia as a gun control leader whose policies could serve as a model for the rest of the nation. But, like most firearm prohibition branding, this framing is not only untrue, it is the opposite the truth. Virginia, in reality, is the victim of a national gun control agenda, not the progenitor of one.
The latest slate of gun controls laws unleashed on Virginia by its Democrat-controlled legislature and governor are not some thoughtful or tailored set of policies that organically arose from Virginia’s unique public safety picture or the particular dynamics of its crime. Instead, it is grab bag of generic policies pushed by national gun control groups, approved by their billionaire donors, and modeled on a globalist paradigm arising in nations that have no constitutional rights to arms. Virginia is simply an opportunist expansion market for these concepts, not their origin point.
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This Virginia Plan is the California Plan, which is the Everytown Plan, which is the Bloomberg Plan, which is the Australia Plan. It has nothing to do with the citizens of Virginia or with the Old Dominion’s culture and values. What an ignominious fall from grace for a state that produced some of the most important and influential of America’s Founding Fathers. In evaluating this fall, it is important to recognize that the core elements are being driven, not by ordinary Virginians, but by globally orientated billionaires, national public interest groups, and a Democratic National Committee that would love to see Richmond morph into the San Francisco of the East Coast.
Beware the rhetorical shift and media narrative to flip the script and make an established national policy package appear more locally grounded and politically palatable, even though its underlying structure has remained unchanged for years.
Further beware that your state may be next. If it can happen in the cradle of American Constitutionalism and the home of NRA’s Headquarters, no gun owning American should believe it could never come home to him or her.
NRA-ILA
April 28, 2026
NRA-ILA | Federal Bill Passes Off National Firearm Prohibition Agenda As “Virginia Model”
Lies and deception. It is an essential part of their culture.
I had overlooked the fact NRA headquarters is in Virginia as I watched those gun control bills breeze through the legislature. I believe that was the last of the major Gun Rights organizations to have their headquarters in a free state:
- Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Washington State)
- Firearm Policy Coalition (California)
- Gun Owners of America (Also Virginia)
- National Association for Gun Rights (Colorado)
- Second Amendment Foundation (Washington State)
Did I miss any?
It must really suck to be such a strong advocate for gun owner rights that you work for such an organization and then suffer the daily infringement of your rights. The politicians inflicting this on innocent people should go to prison.
The only good things I can see about this is that it should motivate the people who work for these organizations and make it somewhat easier to find plaintiffs and file lawsuits.
Technically, the NRA is incorporated in New York. This was the source of all their legal problems and ironically the source of massive turnover on the board and budding reform. Having played in the legislative arena (in a completely different policy area), I am not one to criticize the NRA for lack of militancy. They have to play the cards they have and they are never going to be able to satisfy militants like me. Still they are effective and have been for a long time. The financial scandals were too much though. I moved support to SAF during that period and now and tentatively moving back. SAF is a great organization but their influence is in litigation not in the entire range of activities that the NRA does.
Free state? None of those fit that criterion. DIdn’t I see something a while back about the NRA moving to Texas?
Perhaps these days it’s less so, but there’s an argument to be made that national scope lobbying organizations need to have close physical proximity to DC.
If they wanted a state with decent gun laws reasonably close to DC, I would offer NH as probably the closest option.
NRA, for a 150 years, could have and should have said nothing but “Shall not be infringed” in every lawsuit, court room and state house this country over.
But they decided to play politics instead standing upright on our founding principles.
And have lost every major battle since.
The “big gun” is and always will be the truth found in the 2A.
But nobody can seem to figure out how to use it. And for some strange reason no lawyer has even mentioned it since before 1934.
Like no one in the government of today enforcing 8USC 1324 on politicians bringing in 20 million illegals. No one above the street even mentions it.
Clear violations of 241 & 242 have been going on for close to a 100 hundred years now. And where was/is the NRA that whole time?
Sorry, the game is rigged. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. (Except when they need a check, or your vote.)
Treat them accordingly.