Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly, now in charge in both chambers in the session that opened last week, hope to pass several gun-control bills. The wish list includes legislation to ban the sale of new assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, The Washington Post reported.
With a new Democratic majority on a House of Delegates subcommittee where gun control bills used to die, an assault weapons ban got a thumbs up – the day after a control measure never seen before in Virginia dropped.
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