Firearms in Virginia

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• VASB763 2027By Angelia Williams Graves (D)
  Retail Sales and Use Tax; definitions, imposes firearm and ammunition tax.

  AI summary Imposes an 11% excise tax on gross receipts of firearms and ammunition manufacturers from sales in Virginia, increasing costs for the industry.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Passed one chamber Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB926 2027By Alfonso Lopez (D)
  Outdoor shooting of firearm on property without reasonable care; prohibition, penalty.

  AI summary Adds a new local option for counties to prohibit outdoor firearm discharge unless done on at least five acres with reasonable care (including use of a berm or backstop) to prevent projectiles from crossing property lines, creating a rebuttable presumption of violation for shooting across bounds, so,

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  =No change to gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB919 2027By Alfonso Lopez (D)
  Retail Sales and Use Tax; impose firearm and ammunition tax.

  AI summary Imposes an 11% excise tax on gross receipts of firearms and ammunition manufacturers from sales in Virginia, increasing costs for the industry.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB778 2027By Virgil Thornton (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Pop-up events; local enhanced enforcement actions.

  AI summary Authorizes local governments to declare pop-up event zones as gun-free zones, allowing localities to impose temporary local firearm carry restrictions in designated areas.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB623 2027By Mike Cherry (R)
  Forfeiture of certain weapons; petition for return by Commonwealth.

  AI summary Makes it easier for lawful owners unaware of a crime to recover forfeited weapons used in offenses by allowing petitions from the Commonwealth's attorney or the owner with notice, and by removing the 'and' requirement between the two conditions for return.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB240 2027By Debra Gardner (D) · 6 cosponsors
  Admission to bail; fixing terms of bail, mental health considerations.

  AI summary Adds consideration of whether a firearm was used in the offense to the factors a judicial officer must weigh when deciding on admission to bail and the terms of bail, so more weight is placed on firearm involvement when restricting pretrial release.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB1261 2027By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technology & interrogation practices; forensic laboratory.

  AI summary Establishes comprehensive frameworks, model policies, and compulsory training for law-enforcement use of generative AI, audiovisual surveillance technologies (including license plate readers), and interrogation practices, adding oversight and standards but without provisions on cooperation with ICE,

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB1257 2027By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technologies & interrogation practices; forensic lab.

  AI summary Establishes comprehensive frameworks, model policies, and compulsory training for law-enforcement use of generative AI, audiovisual surveillance technologies (including license plate readers), and interrogation practices, which regulates but does not expand or restrict the scope of immigration-enfor

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB1035 2027By Tony Wilt (R)
  Public schools; school security and discipline, employment of school security officers, training.

  AI summary Allows more former law-enforcement officers to serve as armed school security officers by updating and easing some training and qualification requirements for carrying a firearm in schools, so greater ability to carry firearms in that setting.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VASB352 2026By Saddam Salim (D) · 10 cosponsors
  Law-enforcement officers; restrictions on wearing of facial coverings, exceptions, penalty.

  AI summary Permits law-enforcement officers assigned to SWAT or other specialized tactical teams to wear facial coverings while performing official duties, which may include use of firearms or tactical equipment.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Law May 20: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1132)
• VAHB1482 2026By Charlie Schmidt (D) · 25 cosponsors
  Law-enforcement officers; restrictions on wearing of facial coverings, exceptions, penalty.

  AI summary Requires law-enforcement officers to visibly display a badge or name insignia while on duty, including when carrying firearms, and restricts facial coverings that could conceal identity during official duties (with limited exceptions for tactical/SWAT or undercover units).

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Law May 20: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1131)
• VASB749 2026By Saddam Salim (D) · 16 cosponsors
  Assault firearms & certain ammunition feeding devices; purchase, sale, etc., prohibited, penalties.

  AI summary Prohibits the importation, sale, manufacture, purchase, or transfer of assault firearms (with exceptions for pre-2026 owners and certain transfers), so fewer people can acquire them.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks, other
  Stage: Law May 14: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1107)
• VASB173 2026By Angelia Williams Graves (D)
  Weapons; possession prohibited in hospital that provides mental health or developmental services.

  AI summary Prohibits possession of firearms, location-restricted knives, and other dangerous weapons (including explosives and stun weapons) in hospitals providing mental health or developmental services, so less ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Law May 14: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1109)
• VAHB229 2026By Phil Hernandez (D) · 24 cosponsors
  Weapons; possession prohibited in hospital that provides mental health or developmental services.

  AI summary Prohibits knowing and intentional possession of firearms (and other weapons) in hospitals providing mental health or developmental services, so less ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, carry
  Stage: Law May 14: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1108)
• VAHB217 2026By Dan Helmer (D) · 27 cosponsors
  Assault firearms & certain ammunition feeding devices; purchase, sale, etc., prohibited, penalties.

  AI summary Prohibits the importation, sale, manufacture, purchase, or transfer of assault firearms (with exceptions for pre-2026 owners and certain others), so fewer people can acquire them.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks, other
  Stage: Law May 14: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1106)
• VASB727 2026By Michael Jones (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Assault firearms; carrying in public areas prohibited, exceptions, penalty.

  AI summary Expands the prohibition on carrying assault firearms (as newly defined) to all public places statewide, rather than only in certain localities, so less ability to carry such firearms in public.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1025)
• VASB364 2026By Jennifer Carroll Foy (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Virginia Gun Violence Prevention Center; work group to develop policy, etc., to establish.

  AI summary Establishes a work group to develop policy and legislative recommendations for a Gun Violence Prevention Center, which in practice would likely lead to proposals that add restrictions on firearms.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1008)
• VASB348 2026By Jennifer Boysko (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Firearms; storage in residence where minor or person prohibited from possessing is present, penalty.

  AI summary Requires owners to lock up firearms when a minor or prohibited person is known to be present in the residence, so more restrictions on unsecured firearm storage.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1006)
• VAHB969 2026By Marcia Price (D) · 26 cosponsors
  Virginia Gun Violence Prevention Center; work group to develop policy, etc., to establish.

  AI summary Establishes a work group to develop policy and legislative recommendations for a Virginia Gun Violence Prevention Center, which in practice would likely lead to proposals that add restrictions on firearms.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1082)
• VAHB909 2026By Irene Shin (D) · 9 cosponsors
  Elections; certain conduct prohibited at polling places applicable to locations for absentee voting.

  AI summary Expands the distance for the firearm prohibition from 40 feet to 100 feet at polling places, electoral board meetings, registrar offices, registration sites, absentee voting locations, and recount sites, and changes the language from 'possess' to 'carry on or about his person' while adding limited,

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1078)
• VAHB871 2026By Mark Downey (D) · 13 cosponsors
  Firearms; storage in residence where minor or person prohibited from possessing is present, penalty.

  AI summary Requires owners to lock up firearms when a minor or prohibited person is known to be present in the residence, so more restrictions on unsecured firearm storage.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1074)
• VAHB702 2026By Joshua Cole (D) · 5 cosponsors
  Local law-enforcement agencies; firearm give-back or sell-back programs.

  AI summary Requires local law-enforcement agencies to implement firearm give-back or sell-back programs that mandate destruction of most surrendered firearms within 90 days (with limited exceptions for antiques or historically significant ones), so fewer such firearms remain available for reuse or resale.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1067)
• VAHB1525 2026By Garrett McGuire (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Firearms, certain; definitions, possession, transportation, or purchase by certain persons, penalty.

  AI summary Raises the minimum age to purchase handguns and assault firearms from 18 to 21, so fewer young adults can legally buy those firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, carry, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1102)
• VAHB1524 2026By Garrett McGuire (D)
  Assault firearms; carrying in public areas prohibited, exceptions, penalty.

  AI summary Expands the list of locations where carrying assault firearms is banned to all public areas statewide, so more restrictions on carrying assault firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  =No change to gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1101)
• VAHB1015 2026By Kathy Tran (D) · 6 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Firearms, etc.; carrying concealed weapon by persons convicted of misdemeanor hate crime prohibited.

  AI summary Adds misdemeanor hate crime (under § 18.2-57 A 2) to the list of offenses that must be disclosed on the criminal history form for firearm purchases and that trigger a 3-year prohibition on purchasing, possessing, or transporting firearms, so more restrictions on firearm access for those convicted.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1084)
• VAHB101 2026By Jason Ballard (R) · 7 cosponsors
  Concealed handguns; alternate methods of submission of applications for permits.

  AI summary Allows electronic submission of concealed handgun permit applications and removes the requirement that applicants must submit proof of competence with a handgun, so more ability to carry concealed handguns.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1034)
• VASB496 2026By Dave Marsden (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Handguns in unattended motor vehicle; definitions, penalty.

  AI summary Requires owners to store handguns in locked hard-sided containers out of plain view when leaving them in unattended vehicles in public places, so more restrictions on firearm storage.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561)
• VASB495 2026By Creigh Deeds (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Substantial risk orders; eligible petitioners, court jurisdiction, constr. possession of firearms.

  AI summary Expands the list of eligible petitioners who can seek an emergency substantial risk order (red-flag order) to include school administrators, certified evaluators, various licensed mental health professionals, and intimate partners, and adds factors like threats toward animals or groups for courts to

  ↑Expands gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699)
• VASB273 2026By Mamie Locke (D)
  Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Eviction Diversion Program, eligibility.

  AI summary This bill changes eligibility rules, payment percentages, and other procedures for a state eviction diversion program for residential tenants facing unlawful detainer actions; it has no provisions on abortion or reproductive issues.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818)
• VASB272 2026By Creigh Deeds (D)
  Firearm or explosive material; exemptions, carrying in public institutions of higher education.

  AI summary Expands exemptions allowing certain individuals to carry weapons in buildings owned or operated by public institutions of higher education if approved by the institution's law-enforcement unit or as part of authorized programs, so more ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644)
• VASB115 2026By Stella Pekarsky (D) · 1 cosponsor⚠ check quote
  Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states.

  AI summary Changes Virginia's concealed carry reciprocity from requiring agreements and verification to recognizing out-of-state permits from states with substantially similar laws (with AG and State Police determining and publishing the list), while adding a registry and allowing agreements, so more ability (

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0879)
• VAHB901 2026By Richard Sullivan (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Substantial risk orders; eligible petitioners, court jurisdiction, constr. possession of firearms.

  AI summary Expands the list of eligible petitioners for emergency and substantial risk orders (red-flag orders) to include school administrators, certified evaluators, various licensed mental health professionals, and intimate partners, and adds factors like threats toward groups/locations or animals for the '

  ↑Expands gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698)
• VAHB896 2026By Richard Sullivan (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Substantial Risk Order Training Program; established, delayed effective date, report.

  AI summary Establishes a training program on the use and implementation of substantial risk orders (Virginia's red-flag law), including procedures, circumstances for use, public safety benefits, and public education to increase awareness and proper application of the law.

  ↑Expands gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696)
• VAHB626 2026By Katrina Callsen (D) · 10 cosponsors
  Firearm or explosive material; exemptions, carrying in public institutions of higher education.

  AI summary Expands exemptions allowing individuals to carry firearms in buildings owned or operated by public institutions of higher education if approved as part of curriculum, activities, or authorized organizations, so more ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643)
• VAHB110 2026By Amy Laufer (D) · 8 cosponsors
  Handguns in unattended motor vehicle; definitions, penalty.

  AI summary Requires owners to store handguns in a locked hard-sided container out of plain view when leaving them in an unattended vehicle in public places, so more restrictions on firearm storage.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0560)
• VASB38 2026By Barbara Favola (D)⚠ check quote
  Firearms; transfers to another person from a prohibited person.

  AI summary Expands requirements and procedures for prohibited persons under protective orders to surrender, sell, or transfer firearms to non-prohibited persons (including age and residency restrictions on transferees), with certification, receipts, return procedures, and contempt penalties, so more barriers,

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, other
  Stage: Law Apr 10: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534)
• VASB323 2026By Adam Ebbin (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Plastic firearms or receivers, etc., transfer, etc., prohibited; penalties.

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic/nondetectable firearms, unfinished frames/receivers without serial numbers, and unserialized firearms, with exceptions for certain licensed entities and law enforcement, so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Law Apr 10: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532)
• VASB27 2026By Jennifer Carroll Foy (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Firearm industry members; creates standards of responsible conduct, civil liability.

  AI summary Creates new standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members and allows the Attorney General, local attorneys, and injured persons to sue for public nuisance, injunctions, damages, and other relief based on sales, marketing, or distribution practices, so more civil liability for the gun

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Law Apr 10: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530)
• VASB160 2026By Russet Perry (D)
  Firearms; purchase, etc., after assault & battery of family or household member or intimate partner.

  AI summary Expands the list of misdemeanor convictions that trigger a 3-year prohibition on purchasing, possessing or transporting firearms, so more restrictions on firearm access for those with such convictions.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Law Apr 10: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528)
• VAHB93 2026By Elizabeth Bennett-Parker (D) · 11 cosponsors
  Firearms; transfers to another person from a prohibited person.

  AI summary Expands requirements and procedures for prohibited persons under protective orders to surrender, sell, or transfer firearms to non-prohibited persons (including a new 21-year age minimum and non-cohabitation rule for private transferees), with added certification, receipts, and return protocols, so

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, other
  Stage: Law Apr 10: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533)
• VAHB40 2026By Marcus Simon (D) · 9 cosponsors
  Plastic firearms or receivers, etc., transfer, etc., prohibited; penalties.

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, importation, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic or nondetectable firearms, and bans unfinished frames/receivers and unserialized firearms (with exceptions and serialization rules for licensees), so fewer such items can be made, bought, sold, or possessed.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: Law Apr 10: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531)
• VAHB21 2026By Dan Helmer (D) · 31 cosponsors
  Firearm industry members; creates standards of responsible conduct, civil liability.

  AI summary Creates new standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members and allows the Attorney General, local attorneys, and injured persons to sue for public nuisance, injunctions, damages, and other relief based on sales, marketing, or distribution practices, so more civil liability for the gun

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Law Apr 10: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529)
• VAHB19 2026By Adele McClure (D) · 12 cosponsors
  Firearms; purchase, etc., after assault & battery of family or household member or intimate partner.

  AI summary Expands the list of misdemeanor convictions that prohibit firearm purchase, possession, or transportation for three years, including assault and battery against family/household members or intimate partners, so more restrictions on firearm access for those with such convictions.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Law Apr 10: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527)
• VASB529 2026By Danny Diggs (R)⚠ check quote
  Public schools; school security and discipline, employment of school security officers, training.

  AI summary Allows more former law-enforcement officers to carry firearms as school security officers by updating training requirements and easing some prior restrictions on who qualifies, so greater ability to carry firearms in schools.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 8: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503)
• VAHB916 2026By Alfonso Lopez (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Concealed handgun permit; demonstrated competence, effective clause.

  AI summary Removes specific references to National Rifle Association and United States Concealed Carry Association from the list of acceptable ways to demonstrate competence for a concealed handgun permit, while retaining and broadening other training options such as courses by certified instructors or those a

  =No change to gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Apr 8: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438)
• VASB86 2026By William Stanley (R)
  State Police, Department of; purchase of handguns or other weapons of certain officers.

  AI summary Expands the ability of retiring or former law-enforcement officers, survivors, and certain other personnel to purchase their service handguns or substitute weapons at a nominal $1 price or fair market value, including in more situations and for more categories of people than before.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 6: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286)
• VASB146 2026By Ryan McDougle (R)
  Delinquent children; loss of driving privileges for alcohol, firearm, and drug offenses, truancy.

  AI summary Adds loss of driving privileges as a penalty for juveniles adjudicated delinquent for unlawful use or possession of a handgun or certain shotguns, increasing the consequences for such firearm offenses.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 6: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070)
• VASB109 2026By Stella Pekarsky (D)
  School boards; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household.

  AI summary Requires schools to notify parents annually about their responsibility to safely store firearms in the household and provide information on safe storage laws, child access prevention, and youth firearm fatalities, so more households are informed about and likely to follow safe storage practices.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: Law Apr 6: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089)
• VAHB837 2026By Adele McClure (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Eviction Diversion Program, eligibility.

  AI summary This bill changes eligibility rules, payment percentages, and other procedures for a state eviction diversion program for residential tenants facing unlawful detainer actions; it has no provisions on abortion or reproductive rights.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 6: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230)
• VAHB201 2026By Laura Jane Cohen (D) · 7 cosponsors
  School boards; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household.

  AI summary Requires schools to notify parents annually about their responsibility to safely store firearms in the household and provide information on safe storage laws, child access prevention, and youth firearm fatality statistics, so more households are informed about and likely to follow safe storage rules

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: Law Apr 6: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0088)
• VAHB1300 2026By Mitchell Cornett (R)
  State Police, Department of; purchase of handguns or other weapons of certain officers.

  AI summary Expands the ability of retiring or former law-enforcement officers, survivors, and certain other personnel to purchase their service handguns or other weapons at a nominal $1 price or fair market value, including more categories of eligible buyers and situations.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 6: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285)
• VAHB123 2026By Atoosa Reaser (D)
  Delinquent children; loss of driving privileges for alcohol, firearm, and drug offenses, truancy.

  AI summary Extends loss of driving privileges as a penalty for juveniles adjudicated delinquent for unlawful use or possession of a handgun or certain shotguns, increasing the consequences for such firearm offenses.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 6: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0069)
• VASB643 2026By Scott Surovell (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Firearms, certain; possession, transportation, or purchase by certain persons, penalty.

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'assault firearm' to include certain semi-automatic handguns and rifles equipped with magazines over 20 rounds, folding stocks, or designed for silencers, and raises the age limit for possession/transport of handguns and assault firearms from under 18 to under 21 while also

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks, carry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 24: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB643)
• VASB763 2026By Angelia Williams Graves (D)
  Retail Sales and Use Tax; definitions, imposes firearm and ammunition tax.

  AI summary Imposes an 11% excise tax on gross receipts of firearms and ammunition manufacturers from sales in Virginia, increasing costs for the industry.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 25: Continued to next session in Finance (Voice Vote)
• VAHB907 2026By Irene Shin (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Security requirements for dealers in firearms; civil penalty.

  AI summary Requires firearm dealers at retail locations to use video surveillance, door/window barriers, alarms, and vehicle barriers (or lock guns in a vault/safe/room meeting those standards outside business hours), so more secure storage of firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, industry liability
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB700 2026By C.E. Hayes (D)
  Firearms; waiting period for purchase, penalties.

  AI summary Imposes a mandatory five-day waiting period between completing the consent form and completing a firearm purchase from a dealer (changing from prior law that allowed completion as soon as the background check cleared), so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB7 2026By Michael Jones (D) · 25 cosponsors
  Law-enforcement officers; restrictions on wearing of facial coverings, exceptions, civil liability.

  AI summary Amends training standards for law-enforcement officers and adds restrictions on law-enforcement officers wearing facial coverings while on duty, with exceptions including for SWAT teams, but does not change rules on buying, owning, carrying or making firearms.

  =No change to gun accesspreemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB696 2026By Eric Zehr (R)⚠ check quote
  Firearm/explosive material; carrying into a bldg. owned or leased by the Commonwealth, exceptions.

  AI summary Adds highway rest areas and government stores to the list of exceptions where the prohibition on carrying firearms into Commonwealth-owned or leased buildings does not apply, so more ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB692 2026By Eric Zehr (R)
  Concealed handgun permit; lowers fee for processing an application.

  AI summary Lowers the maximum fees that clerks, local law-enforcement, and State Police may charge for processing concealed handgun permit applications (from $50 total to $25), so lower cost barrier to obtaining a permit to carry a concealed handgun.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, purchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB691 2026By Eric Zehr (R)
  Firearms; control by localities.

  AI summary Removes local authority to ban guns in public parks, streets, roads, alleys, sidewalks, rights-of-way, and adjacent places for permitted events, while retaining authority for government buildings and recreation/community centers, so more ability to carry firearms in those previously restricted areas

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB540 2026By Karen Hamilton (R)
  Carrying firearms in restricted locations; exception.

  AI summary 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,

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, carry, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB24 2026By Dan Helmer (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states.

  AI summary Changes reciprocity for out-of-state concealed handgun permits from requiring an agreement and verification to requiring that the other state's qualifications are adequate to prevent possession by those who would be denied in Virginia, with the Attorney General determining adequacy and a registry on

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB207 2026By Karen Keys-Gamarra (D)
  Retail Sales and Use Tax; imposes firearm suppressor tax.

  AI summary Imposes a $500 excise tax on retail sales of firearm suppressors (silencers), so higher cost and less access to this firearm accessory.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Finance
• VAHB1427 2026By Tim Griffin (R)
  Handguns; limitation on purchases, exemption.

  AI summary Removes the one-handgun-per-30-days limit (and its enhanced background check exception process) that had been in subsection R, so the background check requirement for handgun purchases is no longer tied to any purchase-frequency restriction.

  ↑Expands gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB1359 2026By Patrick Hope (D)⚠ check quote
  Firearms; purchase requirements, penalties.

  AI summary Requires all firearm purchasers from dealers to first obtain a state-issued firearm purchaser license (in addition to the existing background check), and expands the background check process to include verification of the license and additional prohibitions, so more restrictions on who can buy guns.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Appropriations
• VAHB1303 2026By Lee Ware (R)
  Nonresident concealed handgun permits; VSP to issue within 90 days of receipt of application.

  AI summary Requires VSP to issue nonresident concealed handgun permits within 90 days of a completed application (unless disqualified), shortening potential processing delays and thereby increasing the ability of eligible nonresidents to carry concealed handguns in Virginia.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB1082 2026By Wendell Walker (R)
  Crimes by gangs; definition of "predicate criminal act," penalties.

  AI summary Adds violations of multiple firearms statutes (such as § 18.2-308, § 18.2-308.1, § 18.2-308.2, § 18.2-287.4, and § 18.2-300) to the list of predicate criminal acts for criminal street gang definitions, so gang-related prosecutions and penalties become available for more firearms offenses.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Courts of Justice
• VAHB106 2026By Jason Ballard (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Concealed handgun permit; lowers fee for processing an application.

  AI summary Lowers the maximum fees that local law-enforcement and the State Police may charge for processing concealed handgun permit applications and background investigations, from $35/$5 to $10/$5 and total cap from $50 to $25.

  ↑Expands gun accesspurchase background checks, carry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Public Safety
• VAHB919 2026By Alfonso Lopez (D)
  Retail Sales and Use Tax; impose firearm and ammunition tax.

  AI summary Imposes an 11% excise tax on gross receipts of firearms and ammunition manufacturers from sales in Virginia, increasing costs for the industry.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 16: Continued pursuant to House Rule 22 to 2027 in Finance
• VAHB1035 2026By Tony Wilt (R)⚠ check quote
  Public schools; school security and discipline, employment of school security officers, training.

  AI summary Allows more former law-enforcement officers to carry firearms as school security officers by updating training requirements and easing some prior conditions, increasing the ability to carry firearms in schools.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 13: Continued to next session in Public Safety (Voice Vote)
• VAHB240 2026By Debra Gardner (D) · 6 cosponsors
  Admission to bail; fixing terms of bail, mental health considerations.

  AI summary Adds consideration of whether a firearm is alleged to have been used in the offense when determining bail admission and terms, so more weight is given to firearm involvement in pretrial release decisions.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 11: Continued to next session in Courts of Justice (Voice Vote)
• VAHB1094 2026By Amy Laufer (D)
  Firearms; excise tax on manufacturers.

  AI summary Imposes an 11% excise tax on gross receipts of firearms and ammunition manufacturers from sales and distribution in Virginia, increasing costs for the industry.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 11: Incorporated by Finance (HB919-Lopez) (Voice Vote)
• VAHB778 2026By Virgil Thornton (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Pop-up events; local enhanced enforcement actions.

  AI summary Allows localities to declare pop-up event zones as gun-free zones, enabling local restrictions on carrying firearms in those areas.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 6: Continued to next session in Counties, Cities and Towns (Voice Vote)
• VAHB1442 2026By Alfonso Lopez (D) · 6 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Polling places; prohibited activities, acts in furtherance of federal immigration laws.

  AI summary Prohibits any person from performing acts in furtherance of federal immigration law enforcement within 40 feet of polling places, electoral board meetings, and recount locations, so less immigration enforcement at those sites.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 6: Incorporated by Public Safety (HB650-Callsen) (Voice Vote)
• VAHB1261 2026By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technology & interrogation practices; forensic laboratory.

  AI summary Establishes comprehensive frameworks, model policies, and compulsory training standards for law-enforcement use of generative AI, audiovisual surveillance technologies (including license plate readers), and interrogation practices.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 2: Continued to next session in Communications, Technology and Innovation (Voice Vote)
• VAHB1257 2026By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technologies & interrogation practices; forensic lab.

  AI summary Adds compulsory minimum training standards for law-enforcement officers on the use of generative AI, audiovisual surveillance technologies (including license plate readers), and interrogation practices, with no provisions that change rules on buying, owning, carrying or accessing firearms.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 2: Continued to next session in Communications, Technology and Innovation (Voice Vote)
• VAHB926 2026By Alfonso Lopez (D)
  Outdoor shooting of firearm on property without reasonable care; prohibition, penalty.

  AI summary Adds a new local option for counties to prohibit outdoor firearm discharge unless done on at least five acres with reasonable care (including use of a berm or backstop) to prevent projectiles from crossing property lines, with a Class 1 misdemeanor penalty for violations.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 30: Continued to next session in Counties, Cities and Towns (Voice Vote)
• VASB797 2026By Jennifer Carroll Foy (D)
  Firearm purchase; requirements, penalties.

  AI summary Requires all firearm purchasers from dealers to first obtain a state-issued firearm purchaser license (in addition to the existing background check), and adds a post-sale state review of the consent form against criminal records, so more restrictions on who can buy firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 28: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB643-Surovell) (10-Y 0-N)
• VASB723 2026By Glen Sturtevant (R)
  Concealed handgun; carrying without a permit.

  AI summary Eliminates the requirement for a permit to carry a concealed handgun for persons who may lawfully carry openly, so greater ability to carry concealed handguns without a permit.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 28: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB307 2026By Mark Peake (R)
  Crimes by gangs; definition of "predicate criminal act," penalties.

  AI summary Adds violations of several firearms statutes (such as § 18.2-287.4, § 18.2-300, § 18.2-308, § 18.2-308.1, § 18.2-308.2, § 18.2-308.2:01, § 18.2-308.4) to the list of predicate criminal acts that can qualify a group as a criminal street gang, so more gang-related prosecutions and penalties.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 28: Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 4-N)
• VASB79 2026By Danny Diggs (R)⚠ check quote
  Firearms, etc.; carrying into bldg. owned or leased by the Commonwealth, exception for rest areas.

  AI summary Adds rest areas to the list of exceptions where the prohibition on carrying firearms into Commonwealth-owned or leased buildings does not apply, so more ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 26: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N)
• VASB78 2026By Danny Diggs (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Firearms-related offenses; increases mandatory minimum sentence, penalty.

  AI summary Increases the mandatory minimum prison term for a second or subsequent conviction of using or displaying a firearm while committing a listed felony, from five to 10 years.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 26: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N)
• VASB312 2026By Adam Ebbin (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Assault firearms; carrying in public areas prohibited, penalty.

  AI summary Expands the list of banned assault firearms and the geographic scope of the carry prohibition from specific localities to the entire state, so less ability to carry those firearms in public.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 26: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB727-Jones) (13-Y 0-N)
• VAHB694 2026By Eric Zehr (R)
  Concealed handgun; carrying without a permit.

  AI summary Eliminates the requirement for a permit to carry a concealed handgun for persons who are otherwise qualified to obtain one and who may lawfully carry openly, so greater ability to carry concealed handguns without a permit.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 23: Tabled in Public Safety (15-Y 7-N)
• VAHB623 2026By Mike Cherry (R)
  Forfeiture of certain weapons; petition for return by Commonwealth.

  AI summary Makes it easier for lawful owners unaware of a crime to recover forfeited weapons used in offenses by allowing petitions from the Commonwealth's attorney or the owner with notice, and by removing the 'and' requirement between the two conditions for return.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 23: Continued to next session in Public Safety (Voice Vote)
• VASB881 2025By Adam Ebbin (D)
  Plastic firearms or receivers, unserialized firearms, etc.; transfer, etc., prohibited, penalties.

  AI summary Expands the definition of plastic firearm to include machine guns and sawed-off shotguns, and prohibits their knowing manufacture, import, sale, transfer or possession, so fewer such firearms can be made, sold or owned.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed May 2, 2025: Vetoed by Governor
• VASB1221 2025By Lashrecse Aird (D)
  Public housing authorities; indigent parties, unlawful detainer.

  AI summary Prohibits public housing rental agreements from restricting lawful firearm possession in dwelling units (unless required by federal law), so greater ability for tenants to keep firearms in their units.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: Law May 2, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688)
• VASB1048 2025By Stella Pekarsky (D) · 2 cosponsors
  School board policies; parental notification, safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms, etc.

  AI summary Requires schools to notify parents annually of their responsibility to safely store firearms in the household, so more emphasis on safe firearm storage practices.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed May 2, 2025: Vetoed by Governor
• VAHB2415 2025By Rae Cousins (D) · 9 cosponsors
  Public housing authorities; indigent parties, unlawful detainer.

  AI summary Prohibits public housing rental agreements from restricting lawful firearm possession in dwelling units (unless required by federal law), so more ability for tenants in public housing to keep firearms.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: Law May 2, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684)
• VAHB2235 2025By Rae Cousins (D) · 14 cosponsors
  Local and regional correctional facilities; treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant.

  AI summary Adds training requirements for deputy sheriffs and jail officers on care of pregnant women and impacts of restraints, restrictive housing, and body cavity searches, which is a neutral change to law-enforcement training standards with no effect on firearm access.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Law May 2, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698)
• VAHB1678 2025By Laura Jane Cohen (D) · 5 cosponsors
  School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household.

  AI summary Requires schools to notify parents annually of their responsibility to safely store firearms in the household, so more emphasis on safe firearm storage around children.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed May 2, 2025: Vetoed by Governor
• VASB891 2025By Saddam Salim (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Firearms; five day waiting period, penalty.

  AI summary 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.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB886 2025By Russet Perry (D)
  Trigger activator; definition does not include semi-automatic replacement trigger, etc., penalty.

  AI summary The bill prohibits manufacture, importation, sale, possession, transfer, or transportation of auto sears and trigger activators (including bump stocks, binary triggers, etc.), so fewer such devices can be legally owned or used in the state.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB883 2025By Russet Perry (D)
  Firearms; purchase, etc., assault and battery of family member or intimate partner, penalties.

  AI summary Extends the prohibition on purchasing, possessing, or transporting firearms to cover convictions for assault and battery against an intimate partner (in addition to family/household members), so more people are barred from firearm access.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB880 2025By Adam Ebbin (D)
  Assault firearms; carrying in public areas prohibited, penalty.

  AI summary Expands the list of banned assault firearms and accessories that cannot be carried in public places, and narrows exemptions for who may carry them, so more restrictions on carrying such firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, carry
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB848 2025By Saddam Salim (D)
  Firearms, certain; age requirement for purchase, penalty.

  AI summary Adds a requirement that buyers of assault firearms (as newly defined with lower magazine thresholds and more features) must be 21 or older and that dealers must verify age before completing such sales, so more restrictions on who can buy these firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB744 2025By Barbara Favola (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Firearm transfers to another person from a prohibited person.

  AI summary Imposes new requirements on persons convicted of misdemeanor assault and battery of a family or household member to surrender, sell or transfer firearms within 24 hours to a dealer or to a non-prohibited transferee who is 21+ and does not reside with them, with certification and return procedures, a

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB1450 2025By Adam Ebbin (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct, civil liability.

  AI summary Creates new civil causes of action and remedies against firearm industry members for public nuisances and failure to implement reasonable controls on sales and marketing, making lawsuits against the industry easier and more likely to succeed.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB1329 2025By Dave Marsden (D)
  Carrying concealed weapons; secured storage of firearms in unattended vehicles, penalty.

  AI summary Adds requirements to store firearms in locked, opaque, affixed, non-visible containers inside locked unattended vehicles on public property, with civil and criminal penalties for violations including failure to report thefts, so more restrictions on firearm storage.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, carry, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB1182 2025By Creigh Deeds (D)⚠ check quote
  Capitol Sq. or building owned/leased by the Commonwealth, carrying firearm/explosive material, etc.

  AI summary Expands exemptions allowing more off-duty and retired law-enforcement officers, certain state employees, visitors to gun ranges, and individuals at public higher-education institutions (unless a board policy prohibits it) to carry firearms in state-owned or leased buildings and areas, so greater lew

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  ↓Restricts gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB1181 2025By Creigh Deeds (D) · 7 cosponsors
  Assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices; prohibits sale, transfer, etc.

  AI summary Prohibits importation, sale, manufacture, purchase, possession, transport or transfer of assault firearms (including those manufactured before July 1, 2025 for those under 21) and certain large-capacity magazines or features, so fewer people can buy, own or carry these firearms and accessories.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB1134 2025By Jennifer Boysko (D) · 5 cosponsors
  Firearms; storage in residence where minor or person prohibited from possessing is present, penalty.

  AI summary Requires owners to store firearms in locked containers inaccessible to minors or prohibited persons when they are present in the residence, so more restrictions on firearm storage.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VASB1110 2025By Angelia Williams Graves (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health or developmental services.

  AI summary Prohibits knowing and intentional possession of firearms (and other weapons) in hospitals providing mental health or developmental services, so more restrictions on where firearms may be carried.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, carry
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VAHB2631 2025By C.E. Hayes (D) · 13 cosponsors
  Firearms; purchase, at least five day waiting period, penalty.

  AI summary Imposes a mandatory five-day waiting period between completing the consent form and completing a firearm purchase from a dealer (changing from prior law allowing completion as soon as the background check cleared), so fewer immediate firearm purchases.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: House sustained Governor's veto
• VAHB2241 2025By Kathy Tran (D) · 9 cosponsors
  Firearms, etc.; possession, etc., by person convicted of hate crime.

  AI summary Adds a question about prior conviction for a misdemeanor hate crime (under § 18.2-57 with bias motivation) to the criminal history form that firearm dealers must use before transferring a firearm, so more people will be flagged and blocked from purchasing firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: House sustained Governor's veto
• VAHB2064 2025By Adele McClure (D) · 13 cosponsors
  Firearm locking device; required for sale or transfer of firearm.

  AI summary Requires that a locking device be provided with every firearm sold or transferred by a licensed dealer, and mandates a warning about storing firearms unloaded, locked, and inaccessible to children, so more mandated safe storage practices.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: House sustained Governor's veto
• VAHB1977 2025By Phil Hernandez (D) · 23 cosponsors
  Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health or developmental services.

  AI summary Prohibits knowing and intentional possession of firearms (and other weapons) in hospitals providing mental health or developmental services, so less ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, carry
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
• VAHB1960 2025By Elizabeth Bennett-Parker (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Firearm transfers to another person from a prohibited person.

  AI summary Expands requirements and procedures for prohibited persons under protective orders to surrender, sell, or transfer firearms to non-prohibited transferees who are 21+ and do not reside with them, with added certification, reporting of transferee details, and contempt penalties for noncompliance.

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: House sustained Governor's veto
• VAHB1876 2025By Katrina Callsen (D) · 34 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Capitol Sq. or building owned/leased by the Commonwealth, carrying firearm/explosive material, etc.

  AI summary Expands the list of exemptions allowing off-duty and retired law-enforcement officers, certain state employees, visitors to gun ranges, and others to carry firearms in state-owned or leased buildings and areas, and exempts public higher-education property unless a board policy prohibits it.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
• VAHB1869 2025By Adele McClure (D) · 19 cosponsors
  Firearms; purchase, etc., assault and battery of family member or intimate partner, penalties.

  AI summary Expands the list of misdemeanor convictions that prohibit purchasing, possessing or transporting a firearm for three years, so more restrictions on firearm access for those with such convictions.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
• VAHB1797 2025By Dan Helmer (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states.

  AI summary Changes Virginia's reciprocity rules to recognize out-of-state concealed handgun permits only if the issuing state's requirements are adequate to prevent possession by persons who would be denied a Virginia permit, requires the state to review and revoke existing reciprocity agreements that do not,

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: House sustained Governor's veto
• VAHB1736 2025By Marcia Price (D) · 51 cosponsors
  Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention, Va. Center for; created, etc.

  AI summary Establishes a state center to research, collect data on, coordinate, fund via grants, evaluate, and promote best practices for community-based firearm violence intervention and prevention programs (including street outreach, hospital-based, and group violence intervention), so greater implementation

  ↑Expands gun accessred flag erpo
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: House sustained Governor's veto
• VAHB1660 2025By Michael Jones (D) · 12 cosponsors
  Trigger activator; definition does not include semi-automatic replacement trigger, etc., penalty.

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'trigger activator' to include devices that mimic automatic fire or increase rate of fire beyond stock semi-automatic performance, while adding an explicit exclusion for certain semi-automatic replacement triggers used in competitive shooting, resulting in a broader ban on

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: House sustained Governor's veto
• VAHB1608 2025By Dan Helmer (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct, civil liability.

  AI summary Creates new civil causes of action and public nuisance liability for firearm industry members who fail to implement reasonable controls or contribute to public nuisances through their sales, manufacturing, or marketing, making lawsuits against the industry easier and more likely to succeed.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: House sustained Governor's veto
• VAHB1607 2025By Dan Helmer (D) · 24 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties.

  AI summary Prohibits the importation, sale, manufacture, purchase, possession, transport, or transfer of assault firearms (with exceptions for law enforcement and military) and certain large-capacity magazines, so less ability to buy, own or possess those firearms and accessories.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks, carry
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
• VAHB2679 2025By Atoosa Reaser (D) · 9 cosponsors
  School boards; threat assessment teams and procedures, etc.

  AI summary Requires threat assessment teams to provide parents with materials on the legal requirements for safe storage of firearms in the presence of minors when a student is determined to pose a threat, so more emphasis on and information about storage requirements.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: Law Mar 24, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500)
• VAHB2055 2025By Atoosa Reaser (D) · 13 cosponsors
  Student health and safety; responsibility to contact parent of student at imminent risk of suicide.

  AI summary Requires school personnel to provide parents of students at imminent risk of suicide with materials on safe storage of firearms in the presence of minors and strategies for limiting student access to firearms, increasing emphasis on safe firearm storage practices around minors.

  ↑Expands gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Law Mar 24, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525)
• VAHB1583 2025By Jason Ballard (R) · 36 cosponsors
  Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties.

  AI summary Adds 'discharge a firearm within or at' to the list of prohibited threats regarding buildings and means of transportation, expanding the scope of criminalized threats involving firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Law Mar 24, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368)
• VASB1389 2025By Kannan Srinivasan (D)
  Firearm safety device tax credit; defines commercial retailer.

  AI summary Expands a tax credit for purchases of firearm safety devices (including gun safes and locks) from commercial retailers, incentivizing their use and storage.

  ↑Expands gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: Law Mar 21, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303)
• VAHB2595 2025By J.J. Singh (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Firearm safety device tax credit; defines commercial retailer.

  AI summary Expands the tax credit for purchasing firearm safety devices (including gun safes and locks) by broadening the definition of eligible sellers from federally licensed dealers to any registered commercial retailer, making the credit easier to claim and increasing incentives for safe firearm storage.

  ↑Expands gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: Law Mar 21, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289)
• VASB1368 2025By Todd Pillion (R)
  SW Va. Higher Ed. Ctr. Bd. of Trustees; authority to permit campus security to carry firearms.

  AI summary Authorizes the board of the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center to permit its campus security officers to carry firearms while on duty if they meet state qualification standards for armed security officers.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Mar 19, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0113)
• VAHB2441 2025By Israel O'Quinn (R)
  SW Va. Higher Ed. Ctr. Bd. of Trustees; authority to permit campus officers to carry firearms.

  AI summary Authorizes the board of a higher education center to permit its campus security officers to carry firearms while on duty if they meet state qualification standards, increasing the number of armed personnel allowed on campus.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Mar 19, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0174)
• VAHB1597 2025By Michael Feggans (D) · 18 cosponsors
  Firearms; secure storage, penalties.

  AI summary Requires firearms and ammunition to be stored in a locked container inaccessible to minors or prohibited persons when they are known to be present in the residence, with misdemeanor penalties for violations, so more restrictions on firearm storage.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 24, 2025: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1597)
• VASB941 2025By Bill DeSteph (R)
  Robbery; use of air or gas operated weapon, etc., penalty.

  AI summary Expands the definition of robbery with a firearm (Class 3 felony) to also cover air or gas operated weapons similar in appearance to a firearm, increasing penalties for using such weapons in robberies.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18, 2025: Left in Appropriations
• VAHB1622 2025By Amy Laufer (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits leaving a visible handgun in an unattended vehicle on public property, creating a new storage restriction for firearms in vehicles.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 10, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N)
• VASB1220 2025By Bill DeSteph (R)
  Concealed weapons; exceptions, penalty.

  AI summary Expands the list of exceptions to the ban on felons and certain juveniles possessing or carrying firearms, ammunition, stun weapons, or explosives by adding antique firearms and limited black powder for non-violent offenders, and adds a restoration process for explosive material rights under federal

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Courts of Justice
• VAHB2767 2025By Chris Obenshain (R) · 6 cosponsors
  Concealed handgun permit; demonstrated competence.

  AI summary Expands the list of acceptable ways to demonstrate competence for concealed handgun permits and explicitly prohibits requiring any additional demonstrations or expiration of proof, making it easier to obtain and maintain permits to carry concealed handguns.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2719 2025By AC Cordoza (R)
  Firearms; adding court ordered outpatient mental health treatment as prohibition to ownership.

  AI summary Expands the list of people prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting firearms to include those involuntarily ordered to outpatient mental health treatment after acquittal by reason of insanity on certain charges, so more restrictions on firearm access for this group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2586 2025By AC Cordoza (R) · 5 cosponsors
  Voter registration; automatic registration upon application for hunting and fishing license.

  AI summary Expands use of the federal SAVE Program by the Department of Elections to verify citizenship of registered voters and adds reporting of noncitizens from concealed handgun permit applications to aid in removing noncitizens from voter rolls.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Privileges and Elections
• VAHB2433 2025By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technologies and interrogation practices.

  AI summary Adds training standards for school security officers who carry firearms, including active shooter response, but does not change rules on buying, owning, carrying or accessing firearms.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2414 2025By Delores Oates (R)
  Concealed handgun permit; demonstrated competence.

  AI summary Removes the 'in person' requirement for demonstrating competence with a handgun to obtain a concealed handgun permit, allowing more options including online or remote classes, so more ability to carry concealed handguns.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2412 2025By Tim Griffin (R) · 1 cosponsor⚠ check quote
  Firearm/explosive material; carrying into a bldg. owned or leased by the Commonwealth, exceptions.

  AI summary Adds highway rest areas to the list of exceptions where the prohibition on carrying firearms into Commonwealth-owned or leased buildings does not apply, so more ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2363 2025By Tony Wilt (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Corrections, Dept. of; designated employees with same power as sheriff or law-enforcement officer.

  AI summary Expands the list of retired Department of Corrections employees who may carry a concealed handgun without a permit by including those designated under § 53.1-10(11), so more ability to carry for this group.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2257 2025By Hillary Pugh Kent (R)
  School safety; employment of school security officers, criteria.

  AI summary Removes the prior requirement that a retired law-enforcement officer must have been active within the 10 years before being hired as a school security officer, allowing older retirees (up to age 75) to carry firearms on school grounds if other criteria are met.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2202 2025By Nicholas Freitas (R)
  Concealed handgun; carrying without a permit.

  AI summary Eliminates the requirement for a permit to carry a concealed handgun for persons who may lawfully carry openly, so greater ability to carry concealed handguns without a permit.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2145 2025By Eric Zehr (R)
  Firearms; purchase special identification without a photograph.

  AI summary Allows use of a special identification card without a photograph (issued under § 46.2-345.2) to establish identification and Virginia residency for firearm purchases from dealers, and exempts renewed such cards from the 30-day waiting period after original issue that applies to new photo IDs.

  ↑Expands gun accesspurchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2057 2025By Chad Green (R) · 5 cosponsors
  Voter registration; automatic registration of hunting, fishing, and milk distributor license.

  AI summary Expands use of the federal SAVE Program by the Department of Elections to identify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, and requires more state agencies including those issuing concealed handgun permits to collect and share citizenship data with election officials for voter list maintenance.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Privileges and Elections
• VAHB2015 2025By Chris Obenshain (R) · 32 cosponsors
  Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty.

  AI summary Increases the mandatory minimum sentence for a second or subsequent conviction of using or displaying a firearm while committing a listed felony, from five to 10 years.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB1773 2025By Scott Wyatt (R)
  Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; firearm-related offense; felony conviction while a prisoner.

  AI summary Adds violations of § 18.2-53.1, clause (iii) of subsection A of § 18.2-95, § 18.2-108.1, and most felony firearm offenses under Article 4, 5, or 6 of Chapter 7 of Title 18.2 to the list of crimes ineligible for enhanced earned sentence credits, so prisoners convicted of these firearm offenses earn 0

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB1569 2025By Bill Wiley (R)
  Fees for concealed handgun permits.

  AI summary Lowers the maximum fee that local law-enforcement agencies may charge for background investigations for concealed handgun permits from $35 to $10 and lowers the overall cap on total fees from $50 to $25, reducing the cost of obtaining a permit to carry a concealed handgun.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, purchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB1559 2025By Wren Williams (R)
  Renewal of concealed handgun permit; demonstrated competence.

  AI summary Eliminates the requirement for proof of training or demonstration of competence when renewing a concealed handgun permit, so greater ability to carry concealed firearms without additional barriers.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2558 2025By Alfonso Lopez (D)
  Retail Sales and Use Tax; imposes firearm and ammunition taxes.

  AI summary Imposes a new $5 tax per firearm sold and 1-cent tax per round of ammunition, so higher cost of buying firearms and ammunition.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 4, 2025: Left in Finance
• VAHB2556 2025By Amanda Batten (R)
  Address Confidentiality Program; removal of Program participant, penalty.

  AI summary The bill states that participation in the Address Confidentiality Program shall not affect existing custody or visitation orders and shall not be considered as evidence for allocating parental responsibilities or parenting time (with an exception for practical confidentiality measures), so no change

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 4, 2025: Left in Appropriations
• VAHB1818 2025By David Reid (D)
  School Safety Firearm Detection Software Pilot Program; established.

  AI summary Establishes a pilot program and grants to purchase, install, and operate AI-based firearm detection software in school surveillance cameras, which notifies law enforcement and school personnel upon detection, so more tools for identifying firearms on school property.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  =No change to gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 4, 2025: Left in Appropriations
• VASB1397 2025By Mark Peake (R)
  Firearms, stun weapons, etc.; possession or transportation by persons adjudicated delinquent.

  AI summary Expands the list of juvenile adjudications that permanently prohibit firearm and stun weapon possession by those under 29, and adds mandatory minimum sentences for some repeat offenders, so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 27, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N)
• VASB755 2025By Tammy Brankley Mulchi (R)
  School safety; employment of school security officers, criteria.

  AI summary Removes the prior 10-year limit on when a former law-enforcement officer must have been active before being hired as a school security officer (now allowing hires up to age 75), so more former officers can carry firearms on school grounds.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 23, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
• VAHB1581 2025By Jason Ballard (R)
  Firearm safety device tax credit; defines commercial retailer.

  AI summary Expands the tax credit for purchases of firearm safety devices (including those designed to store firearms and be unlocked only by key or combination) by broadening the definition of eligible sellers from federally licensed dealers to any properly registered commercial retailer, so more taxpayers in

  ↑Expands gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 22, 2025: Incorporated by Finance (HB2595-Singh) (Voice Vote)
• VASB938 2025By Danny Diggs (R)
  Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty.

  AI summary Increases the mandatory minimum prison sentence for second or subsequent convictions of using or displaying a firearm while committing a listed felony, from 5 to 10 years.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 17, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N)
• VASB849 2025By Danny Diggs (R)
  Nonresident concealed handgun permits; time limit for issuance.

  AI summary Requires the state police to issue nonresident concealed handgun permits after 90 days if no disqualification is found within that period, so more nonresidents can carry concealed handguns without indefinite delays.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 17, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB837 2025By Glen Sturtevant (R)
  Concealed handgun permits; minimum age requirement.

  AI summary Lowers the minimum age to obtain a concealed handgun permit from 21 to 18 for both residents and nonresidents, and allows out-of-state permit holders who are 18 or older to carry in Virginia under reciprocity, increasing the number of people who can legally carry concealed handguns.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 17, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB1109 2025By Jennifer Carroll Foy (D)⚠ check quote
  Firearm purchases; permit to purchase a firearm required, penalties.

  AI summary Requires a state-issued permit (obtained via background check) before any firearm purchase from a dealer and mandates additional dealer background checks plus a 14-day waiting period after permit issuance, so more restrictions on who can buy firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 17, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N)
• VASB1025 2025By Danny Diggs (R)
  Firearms, etc.; carrying into bldg. owned or leased by the Commonwealth, exception for rest areas.

  AI summary Adds rest areas to the list of exceptions where the prohibition on carrying firearms into Commonwealth-owned or leased buildings does not apply, so more ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 17, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB1027 2025By Danny Diggs (R)
  Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentences, penalty.

  AI summary Increases the mandatory minimum sentence for second or subsequent convictions for using or displaying a firearm during a felony from 5 to 10 years, so more severe penalties for such firearm-related offenses.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 15, 2025: Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (11-Y 0-N)
• VAHB158 2025By Adele McClure (D) · 27 cosponsors
  Firearm locking device; required for sale or transfer of firearm.

  AI summary Requires that a locking device be provided with every firearm sold or transferred by a licensed dealer, and includes a warning about storing firearms locked and inaccessible to children, so more mandated safe storage practices.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Nov 19, 2024: Left in Courts of Justice
• VAHB927 2025By Irene Shin (D)
  Substantial risk orders; recommendations for issuance.

  AI summary Directs a work group to study and recommend procedures for requiring health care providers to report patients they believe pose a substantial risk of injury via firearm possession, to initiate substantial risk orders (Virginia's red-flag law).

  ↑Expands gun accessred flag erpo
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Nov 18, 2024: Left in Rules
• VAHB602 2025By Marcia Price (D) · 1 cosponsor⚠ check quote
  Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention, Virginia Center for, etc.; created.

  AI summary Creates a state center, research clearinghouse, grant fund, and technical assistance for firearm violence intervention and prevention programs including street outreach, hospital-based programs, and group violence intervention, plus model policies for law enforcement on substantial risk orders.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother, red flag erpo
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Nov 18, 2024: Left in Appropriations
• VAHB319 2025By Dan Helmer (D)
  Firearms instructors & safety prog.; removes reference to NRA & U.S. Concealed Carry Assoc. in Code.

  AI summary Removes all specific references to the National Rifle Association and United States Concealed Carry Association as approved or certifying entities for firearms instructors, training courses, and safety programs in multiple code sections, so government-approved alternatives are used instead without a

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Nov 18, 2024: Left in Appropriations
• VAHB270 2025By David Reid (D)
  Commonwealth Comprehensive Gun Safety Program; established, etc.

  AI summary Extends the existing background check waiting period from immediate (after approval) to a mandatory five days after the consent form for all dealer firearm sales, and adds a new prohibition on selling assault firearms to non-citizens or non-permanent residents.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Nov 18, 2024: Left in Appropriations
• VAHB1424 2025By Patrick Hope (D)⚠ check quote
  Firearms; valid permit to purchase, penalties.

  AI summary Requires a state-issued permit to purchase any firearm from a dealer and mandates a criminal history check plus a 14-day waiting period after permit issuance, so fewer people can immediately buy firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  =No change to gun accesscarry, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Nov 18, 2024: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB1235 2025By Eric Zehr (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Concealed handguns; protective orders.

  AI summary Allows people with a valid protective order to carry a concealed handgun without a permit for up to 45 days (or longer if they apply for a permit), and to carry in any place a law-enforcement officer may carry a firearm.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Nov 18, 2024: Left in Public Safety

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