Spanberger's Day-One Gun Grab: Semi-Auto Ban, Age Curbs Signed

Glenn Youngkin's seat wasn't even cold before Spanberger grabbed a pen and started signing.

The package is a three-front assault on law-abiding Virginians: a ban targeting semi-automatic firearms, age restrictions engineered to shrink the pool of legal gun owners, and fresh restrictions on concealed carry—the most statistically validated deterrent to criminal violence in modern criminology.

**Call it what it actually is.** "Common-sense reform" is Spanberger's PR copy. Legally, this is a direct, head-on collision with *Bruen* and *Heller*.

The Supreme Court has already ruled that arms in common use are constitutionally protected—full stop. Semi-automatic pistols and rifles are not niche products. They are the most widely owned firearms in America. Banning them, or walling off young adults from owning them via age cutoffs that have zero grounding in Founding-era history, is textbook unconstitutional under the doctrine the Court locked in with *Bruen* in 2022.

She ran as a moderate. She governed like someone else signed her checks. Virginia gun owners can draw their own conclusions.

The NRA-ILA has already flagged every bill in this package as unconstitutional, and legal challenges are inbound. Courts from coast to coast have been striking down exactly these kinds of laws since *Bruen* reset the constitutional baseline—and this package hands challengers a target-rich environment.

**But here's the brutal truth:** court fights take years. In the meantime, Virginians wake up tomorrow living under these restrictions. The law is already real. The fight has to be just as real.

Contact the NRA-ILA and the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) today and get behind the litigation funds that will drag this into federal court. Make sure every gun owner you know in Virginia is registered, locked in, and has Spanberger's name memorized for 2027.

She fired the first shot on Day One. **Don't let her win the war by default.**