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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session
SB891Firearms; five day waiting period, penalty.
Direction
Firearmspurchase background checksAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 95%
Imposes a mandatory five-day waiting period between consent form completion and firearm transfer from dealer inventory (with exceptions for certain out-of-state or law-enforcement transactions), so more restrictions on immediate firearm purchases.
(iii) at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completed the consent form specified in subsection A.
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FirearmsotherAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Updates and expands criminal penalties, including new mandatory minimum sentences and prohibitions on straw purchases or multiple handgun purchases within 30 days (with exceptions), so more restrictions on certain firearm acquisition practices.
Any person who purchases a firearm with the intent to (i) resell or otherwise provide such firearm to any person who he knows or has reason to believe is ineligible to purchase or otherwise receive from a dealer a firearm for whatever reason or (ii) transport such firearm out of the Commonwealth to be resold or otherwise provided to another person who the transferor knows is ineligible to purchase or otherwise receive a firearm, shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony and sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of one year.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill primarily adds a five-day waiting period requirement to existing dealer background check procedures for firearm transfers in Virginia, which restricts the axis of firearm purchase and ownership by delaying access. It also amends related penalty provisions for violations, straw purchases, and multiple handgun acquisitions, further restricting certain acquisition methods; no provisions expand access or preempt restrictions.
Related bills
HB217Assault firearms & certain ammunition feeding devices; purchase, sale, etc., prohibited, penalties.↓Restricts gun access↓Restricts gun access Law
SB749Assault firearms & certain ammunition feeding devices; purchase, sale, etc., prohibited, penalties.↓Restricts gun access↓Restricts gun access Law
HB1015Firearms, etc.; carrying concealed weapon by persons convicted of misdemeanor hate crime prohibited.↓Restricts gun access↓Restricts gun access Law
HB1525Firearms, certain; definitions, possession, transportation, or purchase by certain persons, penalty.↓Restricts gun access↓Restricts gun access Law
Hearings and calendar
2025-01-17 00:00 · Hearing · Senate Courts of Justice Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
2025-01-22 09:00 · Hearing · Senate Finance and Appropriations Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
2025-02-07 07:30 · Hearing · House Public Safety Committee Hearing House Committee Room A - 008
Votes
Date
Chamber
Motion
Yea-Nay
2025-01-22
S
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
10-5
Passed
2025-01-17
S
Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
9-6
Passed
2025-01-23
S
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)