Spanberger Signs Bloomberg's Wish List—NRA-ILA Vows to Destroy It

Glenn Youngkin's replacement didn't waste a day.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger signed a sweeping trio of anti-gun laws targeting semi-automatic firearms, young adult gun ownership, and concealed carry rights—all in a single stroke. Attorneys are already calling it unconstitutional on its face.

**This is Bloomberg's money made law. Every penny of it.**

The package hits on every front the gun-control machine has been pushing for years: semi-automatic restrictions, age-based purchase bans, and concealed carry crackdowns. All three crash directly into rights the Supreme Court reaffirmed in *Bruen* (2022) and *Heller* (2008).

Let's be clear about what a semi-auto ban actually means. It doesn't target criminals—criminals don't comply with laws. It targets the most common, most popular rifles and pistols in America. The AR-15, the most widely owned rifle in this country, sits squarely in the crosshairs.

The age restriction provisions aren't about safety. They're about shrinking the pool of lawful gun owners—one generation at a time. Adults aged 18–20 hold full constitutional rights. They can vote, sign contracts, and carry the same rifles overseas in the U.S. military that Spanberger now wants to ban them from owning at home.

**She wants them to die for the country but not defend their apartment.**

The concealed carry crackdowns are equally brazen. *Bruen* explicitly demolished the legal foundation for subjective carry permitting schemes. Virginia Democrats either haven't read the ruling—or simply don't care.

Spanberger didn't stumble into this. She ran on it. Bloomberg's money flowed into Virginia for years to build toward exactly this moment: flip the governor's mansion, hold the legislature, and push through laws designed more for headlines than courtroom survival.

The NRA-ILA has already flagged all three bills as unconstitutional—and they're right. Legal challenges are coming fast. Courts across the country have struck down semi-auto bans and age restriction laws under *Bruen*'s historical tradition test. Virginia's new laws walk into the same fire.

But here's the gut punch: **court victories take time and money, and these laws inflict real damage in the interim.** Virginia gun owners face actual criminal penalties right now for exercising rights the Constitution explicitly protects. The law doesn't pause while the lawyers work.

Contact the NRA-ILA. Contact the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL). Contact your state legislators today. Donate to the legal challenge funds. These laws don't enforce themselves into oblivion—they get litigated out of existence by organized, funded, and furious gun owners who refuse to bow to unconstitutional edicts from a governor carrying Bloomberg's water.

Spanberger made her move.

**The courts are next. Make sure they hear from you first.**