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The Second Amendment Sanctuary movement swept across Virginia in late 2019 and early 2020 as a reaction to Democrats capturing control of the state legislature in the 2019 elections. The vast majority of county governments in the state ended up adopting resolutions or (in some cases) ordinances prohibiting cooperation with enforcing new federal gun control laws, though a few counties chose to pass more watered-down language instead.
That was the case in Surry County, which approved a pro-Second Amendment resolution in December 2019, but didn’t adopt the stronger language that hundreds of residents demanded.
“The Surry County Board of Supervisors feels that the right of citizens to bear arms, as stated in both the United States Constitution and the Virginia Constitution, is a fundamental right that should be protected to the greatest degree possible,” the resolution read. But the term “sanctuary” was never used.