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Was anyone from VCDL on here at the committee meeting on this bill?

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Philip Van Cleave was there.  He will be there again this evening for the bills passed over for today.

Do you get the VA Alerts that are sent out?  He is always asking for members to show up with him.

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For lack of a better word: dammit.

Dear James,



It has been said that laws are like sausages: one prefers not to see them made. Rarely has that been more true than this week, as the General Assembly got bogged down in disputes over moving forward on the nominations of two judicial candidates to whom no one actually objects, then stumbled into a committee blunder that will force a "redo" and could imperil the passage of many good bills - including some on Second Amendment rights.



It's just been that sort of week. An inadvertent breach of Senate Rules basically nullified everything the Courts of Justice Committee took up in a six hour marathon meeting on Wednesday, and we're still trying to sort out the carnage. The bills have to be taken up again, and some hard-fought victories will be revisited.



One of those now-jeopardized victories dealt with repealing Virginia's constitutionally suspect "one gun a month" law, which interferes with the right of law-abiding citizens to purchase firearms. I certainly hope that, when we take the bill up again, we'll get another favorable committee vote - but I'd certainly rather not be doing this all over again. Plenty of people are upset right now, and understandably so. But that's life in the Senate of Virginia: never a dull moment.

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I just received an email from Obenshain... it was most likely a victim of this...

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That's al I read  Pretty much rules out campus carry for the year.

Senate Bill 324 was carried over until next year.