With a new Democratic majority on a House of Delegates subcommittee where gun control bills used to die, a proposed assault weapons ban got a thumbs up Thursday — the day a new proposed control measure never seen before in Virginia was filed.
That new bill, House Bill 1424, sponsored by Del. Patrick Hope, D-Arlington, proposes that people need to have a permit to buy a gun.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
