Spanberger Signs 3 Gun Bills Courts Are Already Killing

She wasn't in office long.

Spanberger picked up the pen and targeted **age restrictions on firearms**, **semi-automatic rifle bans**, and **concealed carry limitations** — three of the most legally radioactive areas in post-*Bruen* Second Amendment law. Every category has been challenged or struck down in other jurisdictions. She signed them anyway.

**This is not governance. This is a political statement written in your constitutional rights.**

The age restriction provisions mirror laws federal courts have already thrown skeptical scrutiny at under *New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen* — the Supreme Court's 2022 landmark ruling that demands gun laws be rooted in the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. These laws have no such roots. They never do.

The semi-automatic provisions are even more brazen. The AR-15 and rifles like it are, by every legal and practical measure, arms in common use by tens of millions of law-abiding Americans. *Heller* said the government cannot ban those. *Bruen* reinforced that floor. Spanberger does not care.

And the concealed carry rollbacks? Virginia had been making real, hard-won progress expanding rights for law-abiding carriers. One pen stroke reverses it.

NRA-ILA has flagged the entire package as unconstitutional — and they are right. Litigation is coming. But **litigation costs time and money, and that is precisely what the gun-control machine is counting on**: bleed the opposition dry while the laws take effect and do their damage on the ground.

This is what Bloomberg-funded politics looks like the morning after it wins an election. Virginia gun owners handed Spanberger the governorship. She handed them a gut punch before the ink dried on her oath of office.

**What happens next:** Watch for NRA-ILA and allied groups to file in federal court. Watch for judges to apply *Bruen*'s historical-tradition test — the same test that has already buried similar laws in other circuits. And watch Spanberger's office claim victory even as her bills get enjoined one by one.

Get loud. Get organized. Contact your Virginia state legislators now. Support the litigation. And write the name *Spanberger* somewhere you will find it again in 2029 — because she has already written yours.