{"id":16719,"date":"2019-11-24T13:26:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T19:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=16719"},"modified":"2019-11-24T13:26:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T19:26:34","slug":"16719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=16719","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

In Virginia, and elsewhere, gun supporters prepare to defy new laws<\/a><\/p>\n

AMELIA COURTHOUSE, Va. \u2014Families, church groups, hunt clubs and neighbors began arriving two hours early, with hundreds spilling out of the little courthouse and down the hill to the street in the chilly night air.<\/p>\n

They were here to demand that the Board of Supervisors declare Amelia County a \u201cSecond Amendment sanctuary\u201d where officials will refuse to enforce any new restrictions on gun ownership.<\/p>\n

A resistance movement is boiling up in Virginia, where Democrats rode a platform on gun control to historic victories in state elections earlier this month. The uprising is fueled by a deep cultural gulf between rural red areas that had long wielded power in Virginia and the urban and suburban communities that now dominate. Guns are the focus. Behind that, there is a sense that a way of life is being cast aside.<\/p>\n

In the past two weeks, county governments from the central Piedmont to the Appalachian Southwest \u2014 Charlotte, Campbell, Carroll, Appomattox, Patrick, Dinwiddie, Pittsylvania, Lee and Giles \u2014 have approved resolutions that defy Richmond to come take their guns.<\/p>\n

It mirrors a trend that began last year in western parts of the United States, where some law enforcement officials vowed to go to jail rather than enforce firearm restrictions, and has spread eastward. In New Mexico, 25 of 33 counties declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries after the state expanded background checks. In Illinois, nearly two-thirds of its counties have done the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy oath of office is to uphold the Constitution of the United States,\u201d Amelia Sheriff Ricky L. Walker said Wednesday night as he waited for the supervisors to meet in this rural county west of Richmond.<\/p>\n

If a judge ordered him to seize someone\u2019s guns under a law he viewed as unconstitutional, Walker said, he wouldn\u2019t do it. \u201cThat\u2019s what I hang my hat on,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Virginia, and elsewhere, gun supporters prepare to defy new laws AMELIA COURTHOUSE, Va. \u2014Families, church groups, hunt clubs and neighbors began arriving two hours early, with hundreds spilling out of the little courthouse and down the hill to the street in the chilly night air. They were here to demand that the Board of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16720,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719\/revisions\/16720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}