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Virginia residents are scrambling to purchase modern semiautomatic firearms before the state\u2019s ban on so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d takes effect, local media reported.<\/p>\n

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Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the legislation banning the firearms on May 14, drawing immediate legal challenges from pro-Second Amendment organizations. Despite the uncertainty of whether the law would take effect, AR-15s and similar firearms that would be covered by the ban were flying off the shelves, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. (RELATED: Turns Out Democrats Weren\u2019t Just Coming For Your Rifles After All)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re buying the living daylights out of ARs,\u201d Karen Ballengee, owner of Southern Police Equipment, told the paper. \u201cThey\u2019re buying guns as fast as they can get their hands on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that they know what\u2019s happening, they\u2019ve said, you know, we have the budget for it \u2026 let\u2019s go get an extra,\u201d retired law enforcement officer Tony Martin, general manager of New American Arms in Richmond, told the paper.<\/p>\n

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The FBI reported carrying out over 73,000 background checks on the National Instant Check System in Virginia during May, more than twice as many as the total conducted in May 2025.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the ban on so-called \u201cassault weapons,\u201d the bill Spanberger signed also outlaws standard-capacity magazines, setting an arbitrary limit of 15 rounds. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas observed in a footnote\u00a0from his dissent in Carhart v. Stenberg that the term \u201cassault weapons\u201d is a politically-motivated euphemism used to mischaracterize semi-automatic firearms with features that give them a superficial similarity to firearms capable of fully-automatic operation in order to gain support for legislation restricting or banning them.<\/p>\n

In an\u00a0article published May 13, The New York Times\u00a0noted\u00a0that both the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle (which bears a resemblance to the M16 and M4 select-fire weapons used by the U.S. military) and semiautomatic rifles with cosmetic features or accessories that make them look like fully-automatic AK-47s are popular firearms owned by millions of civilians. Under the Supreme Court\u2019s rulings in\u00a0Heller\u00a0and\u00a0Bruen, firearms in common use for lawful purposes fall under the Second Amendment\u2019s protection.<\/p>\n

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