The state Senate has put off consideration of the one-gun-a-month repeal and will take it up on Monday.
Two senators were absent today – Jill Holtzman Vogel, R-Fauquier, and R. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath.
The measure had cleared the Senate Courts of Justice Committee Jan. 25 on an 8-6 vote.
In 1993 the legislature approved the one-gun-a-month restriction, advocated by then-Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, to address interstate trafficking of firearms in Virginia.
Advocates of repeal say the law has so many exceptions – for people like police officers and owners of concealed weapon permits – that the law only restricts law-abiding citizens.
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