Spanberger Signs Laws Stripping VA Adults of 2A Rights

Let that sink in: if you are 18 years old in Virginia today, the state says you are old enough to vote, old enough to enlist, old enough to die in uniform—but not old enough to buy the most commonly owned rifle in America.

Spanberger signed a package of gun-control bills this week that does exactly that. Here is what just became law in the commonwealth that gave America George Mason and the model for the Bill of Rights.

**Age restrictions** that exile young adults from their Second Amendment rights. Eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old—legal adults under every federal standard—are now barred from purchasing semi-automatic firearms in Virginia. The governor decided their constitutional rights come with an asterisk.

**Semi-automatic restrictions** aimed squarely at the most widely owned rifles in the country. The Supreme Court was explicit in *Bruen* (2022): arms in common use carry full constitutional protection. Spanberger and Richmond Democrats either never read the decision or have decided it doesn't apply to them.

**Concealed carry restrictions** that further strangle the ability of law-abiding Virginians to defend themselves outside the home. Because apparently the right to bear arms is now subject to whatever the current governor finds politically convenient.

None of this was an accident. Spanberger ran on this agenda. Gun-control money backed her campaign. The Bloomberg network helped put her in the governor's mansion—and she is now delivering, on schedule, exactly what they paid for. **This is the anti-gun machine working as designed.**

The legal exposure here is real and immediate. Age-based semi-auto bans have already collapsed in other federal circuits under the *Bruen* framework. NRA-ILA has tagged Virginia's new laws as unconstitutional and has the case law to back that up. These bills don't sidestep the legal buzzsaw—they walk straight into it.

But court victories take time, and in the meantime, Virginia's young adults lose rights they were born with.

Here is your reality check, Virginia: the fight does not end at the courthouse. Contact NRA-ILA, back the legal challenge with whatever you can, and start right now making sure every gun owner in the commonwealth is registered and locked in for the 2025 legislative races. Spanberger signed these bills. **Make her party own every word of them at the ballot box.**

Watch this space—the legal challenge is coming, and when it lands, WTF News will have it first.