Fed Bill Portrays National Firearm
Prohibition Agenda as 'Virginia Model'

Virginia has recently been featured in a lot of headlines about gun control, for all the wrong reasons. A number of them have mentioned a federal gun control bill pending in the U.S. Senate, sponsored by Tim Kaine (D) and Mark Warner (D) of Virginia.

Dubbed "The Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2026," the Senate bill tries to portray Virginia as a gun control leader whose policies could serve as a model for the rest of the nation. But, like most firearm prohibition branding, this framing is not only untrue; it is the opposite the truth. Virginia, in reality, is the victim of a national gun control agenda, not the progenitor of one.

The latest slate of gun control laws unleashed on Virginians by their Democrat-controlled legislature and governor are not some thoughtful or tailored set of policies that organically arose from Virginia's unique public safety picture or the particular dynamics of its crime. Instead, it is a grab bag of generic policies pushed by national gun control groups, approved by their billionaire donors, and modeled on a globalist paradigm arising in nations that have no constitutional rights to arms. Virginia is simply an opportunist expansion market for these concepts, not their origin point.

What is being cheered as "groundbreaking gun safety policy" was never part of a homegrown effort, nor was it ever for Virginia, by Virginia. …