AFPI Continues to Stand for Virginians’ Second Amendment Rights

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) has released the following statement from Knox Williams, AFPI Senior Fellow for American Justice, in response to a new Virginia anti-gun rights law that bans purchasing of AR-15s and standard capacity magazines, even by law-abiding citizens: 

“Virginia has taken the draconian step of passing a law that bans ownership of the most common firearms in the country as well as the most common, standard capacity magazines owned by citizens,” said Williams. “While state officials fail to protect citizens from actual criminals, they pass a law that treats exercising Second Amendment rights like a criminal act. This blatantly unconstitutional action highlights the fact that Virginia’s anti-gun lawmakers will stop at nothing in their tyrannical quest to dismantle and ultimately eliminate the constitutional rights of Virginians."

The right of the people to keep and bear arms is a God-given right that is explicitly protected by our nation’s most sacred document—the U.S. Constitution. AFPI condemns any attempt by a governing body to infringe upon the inalienable and constitutionally protected rights of all law-abiding Americans.