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To suggest that our Founding Fathers had protections for mass murderers with assault weapons when they wrote the Second Amendment is an insult to the very idea of our form of government and ignores the fact that they were referring to a “well regulated Militia.”
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The Waynesboro Police Department arrested Hampton Lamar Smith, 38, of Crozet, on multiple alleged weapon offenses.
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A Georgia man who was convicted in February 2022 for conspiring to traffic methamphetamine from Georgia into Southwest Virginia has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
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A Harrisonburg who used a BB gun to rob First Citizens Bank in Harrisonburg on Jan. 4 pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal armed bank robbery charges.
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You may find this shocking, but a little over a decade ago I spent a weekend learning how to shoot a handgun — under the auspices of the NRA. I wound up earning myself an NRA “personal protection in the home” certificate.
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The U.S. House voted 217-213 Friday to pass an assault weapons ban that would reinstate the ban on military-style rifles, high capacity magazines, and other assault weapons modeled on firearms designed for use on the battlefield.
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White-tailed deer, once nearly gone from Chesapeake Bay drainage states, are now so plentiful that they threaten landscape vegetation and human safety. As a result, they are increasingly in the crosshairs of rifle scopes.
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The ATF Improvement and Modernization (AIM) Act would improve and modernize the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the hope of strengthening gun safety in American communities.
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A Winchester man was arrested today on criminal charges related to his alleged straw purchase of a firearm which was used four days later in a homicide in Washington, D.C.
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A federal grand jury indicted two California men July 19 in Abingdon, Va. for supplying fentanyl linked to teen overdoses in Wise County, Va.
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