Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Would Be Nightmare on Guns

Abigail Spanberger hopes to be Virginia’s next governor. Gov. Glenn Youngkin can’t run this year because Virginia has the weirdest term limits in the country, with no governor being able to hold even two terms consecutively. That opens the door for a new governor and, again, Spanberger wants to be that governor.

Standing in her way is Lt. Governor Winsome Earl-Seares, who is most definitely a pro-gun candidate.

Spanberger, in contrast, is anything but.

David Codrea, writing at Ammoland, has thoughts on that.

Spanberger, on the other hand, never saw a gun she didn’t want to grab. I’ve not made a point of following all the infringements she demands in detail because there are so many prohibitionist Democrat politicians out there, and I just don’t have the time, but here are a few items that have come across my desk over the years.

She bragged about her oath to the Constitution “put[ting] country first before party” while  simultaneously bragging about all the ways she was undermining “the security of a free State.”From the original War on Guns site comes this demonstrable lie:

“Spanberger cited her background. A former officer in both law enforcement and the CIA, Spanberger said she grew up in a house filled with guns among a family of sportsmen. ‘I fully support the Second Amendment,’ she said. ‘It is a fundamental constitutional right, and I affirm that.’”

That must be why Moms Demand Action named her a “Gun Sense Candidate.”

And who is satisfied that all questions concerning the “14,000 votes [Spanberger found] for herself on a flash drive when she was behind in her race” have been completely answered?

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If elected governor, Spanberger threatens to enact every infringement that comes across her desk, whereas Earle-Sears will serve as a veto bulwark against Democrat excesses. Every Virginia gun owner who cares about the Second Amendment needs to involve themself in this campaign and do more than post occasional internet comments.

There are some groups that, when they support someone, you kind of have to know they’re bad news. Spanberger getting that particular distinction from Moms Demand Action is a prime example.

See, anyone can say “it is a fundamental constitutional right” and how they “affirm” that all day long on the campaign trail, but gun control groups don’t throw their support behind pro-gun candidates. Talk is cheap. Policies matter, and Spanberger is talking the wrong game if she wants us to buy her pro-gun claim.

Her own campaign site brags about her desire to “strengthen” mandatory storage laws and to pass “a ban on the manufacturing, sale, and transfer of assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines,” claiming the latter is somehow proven to reduce mass shootings, which is an outright lie.

The truth is that these are “gateway” gun control laws in the first place. If Spanberger got these in her first 100 days in office, she wouldn’t stop pushing gun control, and we all know it. It would be something else.

Virginians need to do themselves a favor and make sure someone like this never holds statewide office anywhere in Virginia ever again.