[Wondergirl]

There are places here in VA you can't carry...like a Court...etc....but unless its specifically prohibited..then its considered allowed.

So how does that work in heavily-populated areas like on the public bus or in hospitals or at schools and airports? Many here think it is a tragedy waiting to happen -- but then if all those places end up off limits, where and when is one allowed to carry? While walking the dog?

[speechlesstx]

I guess you're on your own, or have to rely on police/security. I'm less concerned about being allowed to carry in a courthouse as I am my wife being able to carry to the mall or Walmart where people love to prey on women who are alone. I believe these are the places generally forbidden in Texas:

School buildings
School grounds where a school sponsored activity is on-going
School bus, or other school passenger transportation vehicle.
Polling place on election day (including early voting)
Court or court office.
Race track (licensed for betting)
Airport secured area (past metal-detectors in terminal building)
Within 1,000 feet of a place of execution on the day of an execution, but only if given notice
51% locations - businesses that derive 51 percent or more of its income from the sale or service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption.
High school, collegiate, interscholastic, or professional sporting events.
Correctional facility
Amusement parks

Businesses can also forbid carry by posting a 30.06 sign (interesting choice of numbers), but I don't see that it's forbidden to carry on a public transportation here. I could be wrong...

[smoothy]

So how does that work in heavily-populated areas like on the public bus or in hospitals or at schools and airports? Many here think it is a tragedy waiting to happen -- but then if all those places end up off limits, where and when is one allowed to carry? while walking the dog?

Heavily Populated only means there is a more of a need to carry.

Where Unlawful to Carry

§18.2-308 (J.3.): No person who carries a concealed handgun onto the premises of any restaurant or club as defined in § 4.1-100 for which a license to sell and serve alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption has been granted by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board under Title 4.1 of the Code of Virginia; may consume an alcoholic beverage while on the premises. A person who carries a concealed handgun onto the premises of such a restaurant or club and consumes alcoholic beverages is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. However, nothing in this subsection shall apply to a federal, state, or local law-enforcement officer.

§18.2-308 (O.): Private property when prohibited by the owner of the property, or where posted as prohibited.

§18.2-283: To a place of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held at such place, without good and sufficient reason.

§18.2-283.1: Courthouse.

§18.2-308.1: School property. Exemptions to this statute include a person who has a valid concealed handgun permit and possesses a concealed handgun while in a motor vehicle in a parking lot, traffic circle, or other means of vehicular ingress or egress to the school.
§18.2-287.01: Carrying weapon in air carrier airport terminal.



Virginia State Police - Firearms/Concealed Weapons

Listing of states with which Virginia has Reciprocity Agreements* (A formal written agreement exists between the two jurisdictions):

Alaska
Florida
Kentucky
Mississippi
New Mexico
North Carolina
Ohio Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
West Virginia

* Virginia non-resident permit holders – Virginia non-resident permit holders should contact each reciprocal state to determine if their permit will be recognized prior to carrying in that jurisdiction.

Florida law does not grant reciprocity to holders of Virginia non-resident permits.

Listing of states with which Virginia has mutual recognition (Jurisdictions have informally agreed to honor permits issued by the other):

Arizona
Arkansas
Indiana
Louisiana
Michigan
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Utah
Wyoming



Actually the following link details the process for making application for a Concealed carry permit in VA.

Virginia State Police - Resident Concealed Handgun Permits

[smoothy]

And here is something the lefties REALLY get their panties in a knot over... since so few of them are capable of grasping the difference between an assault weapon and a regular gun.

Virginia State Police - Machine Gun Registration

I've been tempted... but those things are so damned expensive to buy... I've never gotten beyond the drooling stage.

[Wondergirl]

Cheap illegal handguns are what are used in Chicago 'hoods by gang members. So how do we get rid of that problem? (big discussion going on right now in Chicago) It seems to be a "take back my neighborhood" thing street by street.

[smoothy]

Cheap illegal handguns are what are used in Chicago 'hoods by gang members. So how do we get rid of that problem? (big discussion going on right now in Chicago) It seems to be a "take back my neighborhood" thing street by street.

Maybe if the people caught using them in a crime actually did time in jail... (most don't or get a slap on the wrist) you will have fewer criminals on the loose.

I read the stats someplace of why NYC has such a low crime rate compared to Chicago that has such a high one. The parts I remember is 4 times as many people caught using an illegal gun in a crime... are going to go to jail... AND do considerably more time there per offense... than a criminal in Chicago will do.

[speechlesstx]

Cheap illegal handguns are what are used in Chicago 'hoods by gang members. So how do we get rid of that problem? (big discussion going on right now in Chicago) It seems to be a "take back my neighborhood" thing street by street.

First it would behelpful if the media wouldn't cover for FLOTUS making false claims about "automatic weapons." The truth is helpful.

http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2522593#.US1O1BNZ65Q

[paraclete]

I guess you're on your own, or have to rely on police/security. I'm less concerned about being allowed to carry in a courthouse as I am my wife being able to carry to the mall or Walmart where people love to prey on women who are alone. I believe these are the places generally forbidden in Texas:

School buildings
School grounds where a school sponsored activity is on-going
School bus, or other school passenger transportation vehicle.
Polling place on election day (including early voting)
Court or court office.
Race track (licensed for betting)
Airport secured area (past metal-detectors in terminal building)
Within 1,000 feet of a place of execution on the day of an execution, but only if given notice
51% locations - businesses that derive 51 percent or more of its income from the sale or service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption.
High school, collegiate, interscholastic, or professional sporting events.
Correctional facility
Amusement parks

Businesses can also forbid carry by posting a 30.06 sign (interesting choice of numbers), but I don't see that it's forbidden to carry on a public transportation here. I could be wrong...

So let me get this straight you cannot have a gun in a number of places that are high risk but you can carry a gun walking down the street but I thought your constitution says the right to bear arms shall not be restricted, so, If it is good enough to restrict in one place it should be good enough to restrict in all places in the interests of public safety. Go figure, the constitution is a strawman argument

[smoothy]

so let me get this straight you cannot have a gun in a number of places that are high risk but you can carry a gun walking down the street but I thought your constitution says the right to bear arms shall not be restricted, so, If it is good enough to restrict in one place it should be good enough to restrict in all places in the interests of public safety. Go figure, the constitution is a strawman argument

Same argument can be made to make liberals shut up... free speech isn't without limits too.

[paraclete]

Ok so now we can have limited free speech and limited guns, now we are getting somewhere, so I expect the gun carry thing only applies to citizens, so there is the potential to get rid of 11 million guns. How many more of these constitutional rights are limited, with the military budget cut I expect they will be billeting troops in the homes next and asking the troops to provide their own rifles

[tomder55]

The military cuts are of no consequences if they have smart executive administrators (Hagel isn't the man for the job;and Leon Panetta deliberately decided to ignore the reality that sequester was coming. ) . The military and all the government depts could easily absorb 10% cuts just by sharpening their #2 Ticonderoga pencils and making some real budgetting decisions. They could immediately make up for the cuts by closing bases in German beer halls .

[smoothy]

Ok so now we can have limited free speech and limited guns, now we are getting somewhere, so I expect the gun carry thing only applies to citizens, so there is the potential to get rid of 11 million guns. How many more of these constitutional rights are limited, with the military budget cut I expect they will be billeting troops in the homes next and asking the troops to provide their own rifles

Elected officials don't get to Interpret what is and isn't in the constitution and if it applies... thank god.

IF you believe Obama... He is a god and only HE gets to decide what is and isn't a right for all the petty little mortals.

Lefties only believe in the rights THEY want at the moment... wasn't only a couple decades ago the same lefties were whining about "The Man" and "Big Brother" getting in their face and "holding them down"... and right now they are at LEAST ten times worse than the people they were complaining about in their youth. I was old enough to remember it at the time... even though I wasn't an adult yet then.

Citizens are legaly ENTITLED to the RIGHT to own guns... its not up for the passing whimsy of some brown pantywaste that managed to steal an election by lying to enough people. Its Established Constitutionally... and can only be taken away through the legally prescribed was... which is the ONLY way the constitution can be changed.

And this Sequester is the biggest propaganda lie the Democrat party has ever pulled off yet.

THe total amount of the Sequester is 20% of this years Budget Deficit... not the National debt... even AFTER the sequester the Obama Administration will still have spent even more money than they spent last year alone.

Therefore if they had money last year... they have the money this year... it ammounts to less than 2% of the budget. BUt if you listen to the blowhards on the left, you would think they are shutting the government down by refusing to allow ANY money to be spent.

And there are morons out there that actually believe the lies. WHen sufficient proof to the contrary is out there.

Funny thing... want to bet every single welfare bum gets their check on time?

[excon]

Hello again, smoothy:

its not up for the passing whimsy of some brown pantywaste that managed to steal an election

Careful, smoothy.. Your RACISM is showing...

Excon

[smoothy]

Hello again, smoothy:

Careful, smoothy.. Your RACISM is showing...

excon

I have referred to Bill Clinton as a WHITE pantywaste in the past...

Unless someone is recognising Pantywaste as a sentient life form these days...

Owebama isn't entitled to any more respect than George Bush got... or Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez is entitled to either.

He gets the respect he deserves from his Marxist leanings... which is probibly WORSE than Karl Marx ever was when he was alive.

[speechlesstx]

Obama had a meeting with the governors, and naturally kicked the media out before taking questions. Obama's answer to everything was 'no.' Nikki Haley said her kids could fine $83 billion in cuts, "it's not rocket science."

[talaniman]

its not up for the passing whimsy of some brown pantywaste that managed to steal an election

TWO elections. With the alternative being you guys, it wasn't stealing as much as self defense for reasonable people. Yeah mostly brown, some whites, and females. All that was left is loonies and center right greedy capitalists.

Naw it wasn't stealing, it was a no brainer.

[smoothy]

TWO elections. With the alternative being you guys, it wasn't stealing as much as self defense for reasonable people. Yeah mostly brown, some whites, and females. All that was left is loonies and center right greedy capitalists.

Naw it wasn't stealing, it was a no brainer.

THen explain how so many precincts had more votes cast then they had eligible voters?

Explain of the precincts in the no ID required areas that had ZERO votes cast for a republican... Something that is a statistical impossibility.

Explain all the documents proof of votor fraud by Obama people... not to mention one in VA, PAT Moran who was actually on video explaining how they do it?

Cuban Elections were more honest than the last two we had.

[talaniman]

That's what you guys holler about because you can't believe you lost. That's denial dude.

Simple fact is more people came out for our guy than yours. Get over it. Stop talking crazy as a loony bird and scaring folks. Hell you scared your own side pretty bad and they didn't vote.

[smoothy]

What I said was reality... its fact... its proven, its documented.

What is denial is Obama and you guys thinking it's the evil rich sucking up all the money so there is no money left for the poor to make. Only loons believe the Economy is a zero sum affair.

What is crazy is the Democrats acting like the world is ending over what ammounts to 2% ofg the annual spending for the year... which is 20% of the DEFICIT SPENDING for this year...

SO the head Lunatic Lord Obama orders thousands of Illegal criminals loose on the public for exactly what legitimate reason? He argues there is no money to send a Airgraft Carrier to the Gulf... yet I bet every welfare bum in the country gets their check on time.

How did they ever pay for this stuff as late as 2011 which is the level of spending AFTER all the sequester cuts are applied.

[smearcase]

Look at the illustration (in the link here) of the number of pallets (in 100 dollar bills) that it takes to represent a trillion dollars. Imagine about 16 more piled on top of the one shown to get to the level of the current deficit. The cuts (85 billion) will take away less than 10% of the first stack.
In ten years, the stack would be 49 layers deep (if there were no cuts) but it will be only 48 layers thick because of all the "drastic" cuts.

Requiring 50% of the cuts from Defense is the really stupid part, not that there aren't plenty of cuts that need to be made there, but because the pols will do more things like the game playing they have already done in cancelling deployment of the USS Harry Truman to the Gulf which endangers our valuable troops (upwards of ten percent of our entire military forces) instead of going after the non-essentials first. These kinds of actions will get their own chapter in the "Decline and fall of the American Empire" book.

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?