{"id":27484,"date":"2016-01-29T16:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T21:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27484"},"modified":"2016-01-29T16:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T21:51:33","slug":"reciprocity-gun-rights-restored-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27484","title":{"rendered":"Reciprocity Gun Rights Restored In Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Times News<\/a> in Kingsport, Tennessee<\/a>, reported today that Virginia<\/a> will again recognize concealed carry permits from other states, including Tennessee<\/a> and Kentucky<\/a>. This action reverses a decision by the Virginia Attorney General<\/a> which nullified reciprocity agreements with twenty-five states.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

On Tuesday the issue brought 9th District Congressman Morgan Griffith<\/a>, R-Salem, and Tennessee Rep. Phil Roe<\/a> together in Bristol<\/a> in a border declaration of defiance to slam Herring’s decision and advocate Virginia live up to its agreements.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the two House colleagues learned of the agreement, they issued a joint statement praising resolution of the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Like many of our constituents, we were frustrated by Attorney General Herring<\/a>‘s confusing and unworkable decision to no longer recognize out of state concealed carry permits. Put simply, we believe your Second Amendment right does not stop at a state line,” Griffith and Roe said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The statement referred to the pair’s visit to Bristol last week to discuss the effects Herring decision would have “on our constituents who regularly cross state lines — some who do so by simply walking across the street — as well as local law enforcement tasked with carrying out the policy.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is little doubt that the decision to nullify reciprocity agreements would have resulted in a lawsuit fairly quickly. As Congressman Griffith stated, “… your Second Amendment right does not stop at a state line.” This was an example of a state Attorney General trying to put in place a law that was clearly unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

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The Times News in Kingsport, Tennessee, reported today that Virginia will again recognize concealed carry permits from other states, including Tennessee and Kentucky. This action reverses a decision by the Virginia Attorney General which nullified reciprocity agreements with twenty-five states. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9701,9700,9702,2283,1395],"class_list":["post-27484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concealed-carry-gun-permits","tag-kingsport","tag-reciprocity-agreements-between-states","tag-second-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27485,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions\/27485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}