Loudon County, Virginia Officials Noncommittal on Whether They Intend to Enforce New Gun Laws

Loudon County in Virginia has gotten a lot of press over the last handful of years, and little of it has been really good. Let’s not forget that this is the same place where parents were branded as domestic terrorists because they took issue with the local school board on how they handled an incident involving a boy in a skirt assaulting a female student.

As it’s right outside of Washington, DC, and Baltimore, Maryland, they get a double-dose of urban ugh, so it’s not overly surprising, I guess.

Yet, despite that, there’s an interesting stand on the issue of guns taking place in Loudon County. While it’s a Northern Virginia county, the kind that Gov. Abigail Spanberger and company are counting on to maintain their stranglehold over the state, officials there aren’t tripping over themselves to back the Democrats’ new gun control laws.

Law enforcement leaders in Loudoun have not committed to enforcing new firearms laws set to go into effect on July 1.

Several new gun laws will take effect at the beginning of the month. The most high-profile ones are banning “ghost guns,” or guns without serial numbers; banning the sale of assault weapons; prohibiting the carrying of assault weapons in public; and banning magazines that hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition.

The bill describes assault weapons as a “semi-automatic center-fire rifle” or a handgun with a magazine holding more than 15 rounds.

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Tom Julia, Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office director of media relations and communications, said, “The LCSO will continue to support thoughtful legislation that advances the securing and safe storage of firearms in homes and motor vehicles. Changes in the law that affect sales by firearms dealers are enforced by the Virginia State Police.”

The Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney said it was still reviewing the legislation. A source told Loudoun Now that the OCA does not anticipate bringing cases under the new laws because it would be difficult to prove someone was in violation of the laws.

This is interesting.

While officials in the legislature are losing their minds because some CAs and sheriffs have made it clear they won’t enforce the law–and can make that decision because of a law the Democrats passed in response to a court ruling that CAs had to prosecute marijuana offenses–Loudon County officials don’t seem to be saying they plan to do all that much.

Julia’s office seems to suggest at least some enforcement, while the CA’s office doesn’t seem to think they will be prosecuting anyone. Still, this isn’t exactly a full-throated defense or refutation of the law, either, and considering that this is the county that voted for Spanberger by a nearly two-to-one margin over Winsome Earle-Seares, that’s interesting. It should be noted that none of the other races were even close, either, though the attorney general’s race was the closest of the statewide. I guess talking about shooting an opponent twice didn’t sit as well with some voters as one might think.

Could it be that even some in Spanberger’s Northern Virginia strongholds are less than enamored with how she and her cohort campaigned on affordability and took office only to push gun control?

Who knows.

It also might not mean anything. Officials could just be hedging their language because they don’t want to get the same treatment the school board got, and they know gun owners are passionate people who value their right to keep and bear arms.

Still, it’s interesting if nothing else.

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