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HUNTING Digest - 4 Apr 1997 - Special issueALERT: VA - Anti-Gun Veto Override in Works



March 31, 1997

Virginia

On Wednesday, April 2, anti-gunners in the Virginia legislature
will attempt to override Governor Allen's veto of SB 763 and SB
978.

If they are successful, the Board of Supervisors in Fairfax
County will then have the power to ban firearms in county-owned
community centers, and the system of uniform statewide firearm
laws which apply equally to all Virginians will be seriously
damaged.

In vetoing the two anti-gun bills, Governor Allen wisely noted
that, "no criminal who goes into a police station or recreation
center with the intent or predisposition to commit a violent
crime is going to be deterred by a local ordinance under which he

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