Official: Gun sanctuary resolutions have 'no legal effect'

RICHMOND, Va. — Resolutions handed by native governments declaring themselves “Second Amendment Sanctuaries” accept as true with “no honest perform,” Virginia Legal expert Traditional Label Herring said Friday.

Since Democrats obtained majorities within the speak Senate and House of Delegates in November, extra than 100 cities, cities and counties accept as true with handed such resolutions, vowing to oppose any contemporary gun regulations they suspect violate the Second Amendment.

On Friday, Herring issued an advisory thought on the resolutions. Herring said localities “can now not nullify speak regulations” and must apply gun violence prevention measures handed by the Traditional Assembly.

“These resolutions attach now not need any honest force, and they’re appropriate allotment of an effort by the gun lobby to stoke concern,” Herring said in an announcement.

Thousands of gun rights advocates accept as true with proven up at county meetings across the speak to toughen the resolutions. Some accept as true with vowed to defy contemporary gun restrictions they suspect violate theír Second Amendment stunning to rob and accept as true with palms.

Philip Van Slice, president of the gun rights community Virginia Residents Protection League, known as Herring’s advisory thought “a yawn.”

“The final belief used to be to ship a message from native authorities representing astronomical numbers of folk to whisper no extra gun rob watch over,” Van Slice said.

Democratic lawmakers and Gov.Ralph Northamaccept as true with proposed an array of gun rob watch over regulations, including universal background checks, an assault weapons ban and red flag regulations that may possibly well allow the non eternal removal of guns from any individual who’s deemed to be perilous to themselves or others.