HB540 Carrying firearms in restricted locations; exception.

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Expands state preemption of local gun rules by limiting localities' ability to restrict firearm storage in workplaces and by narrowing the scope of allowable local ordinances prohibiting firearms in certain public places, while adding exceptions for victims of family abuse.

Nothing in this section shall prohibit a locality from adopting workplace rules relating to terms and conditions of employment of the workforce. However, no locality shall adopt any workplace rule, other than for the purposes of a community services board or behavioral health authority as defined in § 37.2-100, that prevents an employee of that locality from storing at that locality's workplace a lawfully possessed firearm and ammunition in a locked private motor vehicle.

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Expands the ability to carry firearms by adding exceptions for victims of family abuse with protective orders to multiple statutes prohibiting carry in restricted locations such as government buildings, Capitol Square, airports, public areas with certain weapons, polling places, and electoral board,

The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to (a) any woman who (1) is a current victim of family abuse, as that term is defined in § 16.1-228, and (2) has an active protective order against a family or household member, as that term is defined in § 16.1-228;

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Removes restrictions on carrying certain loaded semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns in specified public areas by deleting the specific definitions of prohibited weapons from the statute.

It shall be unlawful for any person to carry a loaded [deleted: (a)] (i) semi-automatic center-fire rifle or pistol that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material and is equipped at the time of the offense with a magazine that will hold more than 20 rounds of ammunition or designed by the manufacturer to accommodate a silencer or equipped with a folding stock or [deleted: (b)] (ii) shotgun with a magazine that will hold more than seven rounds of the longest ammunition for which it is chambered on or about his person on any public street, road,

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