According to Firearm Chronicles
A Northern Virginia woman, with the help of pro-gun groups, is taking the state government to court over a new law that limits handgun sales to one per month.
Valerie Trojan, a Goochland County grandmother, wants to purchase several identical handguns this summer– possibly as presents for family members– but would be prevented from doing so by a looming new law that rations such sales to one in a 30-day period. Although a local FFL, Brothers N Arms, wants to order such guns for Trojan, they are likewise prevented from selling them to her unless the transfers are staggered out over time, a prospect the licensed dealer says interferes with their lawful commerce.
Trojan and Brothers N Arms, therefore, joined with the Virginia Citizens Defense League and Gun Owners of America to take the state to court, filing a 33-page complaint this week in Goochland County Circuit Court naming the head of the Superintendent of the Virginia State Police as a defendant.
The legal action challenges the pending gun control measure on Second Amendment grounds, going so far as to point out that such previous laws have roots in racism, drawing a comparison to the Commonwealth’s 1748 slave codes which limited guns in the hands of freedmen to a singular firearm. More recently, Virginia installed a gun rationing scheme in 1993, which was scuttled by the state legislature in a repeal signed by Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell in 2012.
The new law, set to take effect on July 1, came in a raft of controversial legislation muscled through Richmond in partisan votes and signed by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat who ran for office with the support of big-dollar anti-gun activist organizations.