Spanberger Just Signed Two Unconstitutional Gun Bills—Read This Now

On April 23rd, Governor Spanberger put her signature on HB1525 and SB727/HB1524, cramming two fresh restrictions onto the backs of law-abiding Virginia gun owners while criminals laughed. These aren't procedural tweaks. The NRA-ILA is calling them unconstitutional outright — and they're right. Spanberger knows it. She signed them anyway.

HB1525 and the paired SB727/HB1524 represent exactly the kind of incremental legislative creep that anti-gun governors like Spanberger, Newsom, Hochul, and Pritzker have been running for years: pass something, anything, normalize the restriction, then come back for more next session. Virginia was once a bright red fortress for the Second Amendment. Spanberger and her allies have spent years chipping away at that — and today they drew blood.

Here's what makes this sting harder: the Supreme Court's Bruen decision was supposed to slam the door on exactly this kind of unconstitutional overreach. Justice Thomas wrote the majority opinion in plain English — if a gun law doesn't have a historical analogue rooted in this nation's founding tradition, it doesn't survive. Spanberger either didn't read it or doesn't care. The NRA-ILA is already flagging these bills as ripe for a legal challenge, and if Kash Patel's FBI and Todd Blanche's DOJ are paying attention, there's federal leverage here too.

Virginia gun owners built the grassroots machine that flipped legislative seats and held the line for years. That machine needs to fire up again — NOW. These laws don't enforce themselves overnight, but they create the legal framework for what comes next. Every unconstitutional bill that gets signed without a fight becomes the floor for the next round of restrictions. Spanberger is counting on fatigue. Don't give it to her.