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1. NRA-ILA - keep the pressure up! 2. Correction on checking CHP renewal effective date 3. VCU doesn't trust its own "no guns" policy ;-) 4. Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial stomps on the imaginary "gun show loophole" 5. Ammoland covers the National Reciprocity petition 6. Petition status update ************************************************************ 1. NRA-ILA - keep the pressure up! ************************************************************ The NRA-ILA has heard from hundreds of us and there has been a response through the state representative. Yes, the message has excuses for the NRA-ILA not to help, but we can turn this around if enough of us make our voices heard! If you haven't done this yet, please do so: We have 13 days left to reach 100,000 signatures on the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity petition. As of 3pm on August 4th there are right at 17,000 signatures. We have a long ways to go in those 17 days! We need national groups to step up to the plate, including the NRA! Here in Virginia there is a statewide NRA-ILA coordinator. I think he would be a logical person to contact about this. I've met him in person and he's excellent. Knowing the NRA, he can't make any decisions himself, but he should be able to pass our message up the chain of command. TIME IS SHORT: EVERYONE, please contact: Patrick DeStefano email: patr...@nrailafrontlines.com Phone: 864-680-0399 and politely ask him to have the NRA join the fight to get those 100,000 signatures by August 17th! **Tell friends and family outside of Virginia to call the NRA-ILA headquarters about the petition! Spread the word!** Contact GOA, CCRKBA, and SAF, too! ************************************************************ 2. Correction on checking CHP renewal effective date ************************************************************ I came down with a bad case of type-o-itis in the last Update. Here is the corrected item #4 with "90 to 100 days" changed to "90 to 180 days." Ugh. - Member Leo Carling and others have caught a mistake on their renewed permits, where the effective date is wrong. If you put in your renewal application between 90 and 180 days before expiration of your existing permit, the new permit should begin on the date your existing permit expires. Warren County and others have made this mistake. DO NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT. Talk to the Circuit Court Clerk directly and demand a corrected permit ASAP. ************************************************************ 3. VCU doesn't trust its own "no guns" policy ;-) ************************************************************ Thanks to member Clayton Rhoades for the link and his acute observation: "VCU must not believe in their own gun ban very much to do exercises to simulate an attack." VCU knew their gun ban wouldn't make anyone safer from the beginning. As with all gun bans, it only endangers those it purports to be protecting. More and more states are allowing college/university carry and of which has been successful. Here in Virginia, Liberty University is leading the way. http://m.nbc12.com/nbc12/db/330650/content/rsoEyXE6 ************************************************************ 4. Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial stomps on the imaginary "gun show loophole" ************************************************************ http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/editorial-the-gun-show-loophole-seems-to-have-shrunk/article_de9cdcc4-48ea-5862-b1d7-75b1445fbb03.html or http://tinyurl.com/y9wbfv3q Editorial: The gun-show loophole seems to have shrunk If you follow debates in Virginia’s General Assembly, you might get the impression that the state could sharply curtail the violent-crime rate if only lawmakers would close the “gun-show loophole.” New data suggest the impression is mistaken. Federally licensed firearm dealers must conduct a background check on prospective purchasers, but private sellers don’t have to. That’s true regardless of whether the transaction takes place at a gun show or not. Yet to hear advocates and some legislators talk, you’d think gun shows provide hardened criminals with a steady stream of easy weapons. In fact, the claim has never held up well. Most criminals get their guns through other means, such as “sharing arrangements with fellow gang members,” according to a recent item in Newsweek. A survey of prison inmates by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that gun shows accounted for less than 1 percent of the firearms used by felons. That survey is two decades old now, but evidence to contradict it does not seem to have surfaced. Meanwhile, new data about a Virginia law suggests that it probably still holds up. The law, part of a compromise between the GOP-held Assembly and Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, provides for voluntary background checks at gun shows. Private sellers at gun shows asked for only 54 background checks at the 77 gun shows held in Virginia during the past 12 months. Perhaps few private transactions took place; perhaps many did, but few sellers asked for background checks. (And then there’s the possibility that private sellers simply declined to sell guns to people who seemed sketchy to them, obviating the need for a background check in the first place.) Either way, only one buyer was denied a firearm because of legal ineligibility. Given the insinuations about criminals and gun shows, that’s a remarkably low rate of less than 2 percent. Meanwhile, federally licensed dealers conducted 40,000 mandatory background checks at gun shows during the same period. The denial rate in those cases was even lower: 1 out of every 122 transactions. By one estimate, perhaps 15 to 20 private sales take place at the typical gun show. If the estimate is accurate, then multiplying it by the number of gun shows comes to roughly 1,500 such sales. Depending on which denial rate you use, that means somewhere between 10 and 30 individuals bought guns when they should have been denied. Even one individual can do a tremendous amount of damage — just look at Seung-Hui Cho’s rampage a decade ago at Virginia Tech (Cho bought his guns from a store, not at a gun show). Nevertheless, the figures show that only a small number of disqualified people are buying weapons at gun shows because of the loophole. It is also highly unlikely that every one of them will go on to commit crimes with those weapons. This is not necessarily an argument for keeping the gun-show loophole open. But it does suggest the alarmism about the loophole is overblown. ************************************************************ 5. Ammoland covers the National Reciprocity petition ************************************************************ https://www.ammoland.com/2017/08/white-house-petition-for-national-concealed-carry-reciprocity-h-r-38/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fbf4f769cb-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-fbf4f769cb-20837225#axzz4objoTmUo or http://tinyurl.com/y8n9fmhy ************************************************************ 6. Petition status update ************************************************************ As of 3:46pm on August 2, we are sitting right at 16,000 signatures. Only 84,000 to go. Keep spreading the word! Here's the link again: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/national-reciprocity-nations-17-million-concealed-handgun-permit-holders ------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** VA-ALERT is a project of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). 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