If you ever researched or obtained a non-resident CCW permit, you've heard the advise it's best to get multiple permits with overlapping reciprocity.
The reason for this is states can, and do, change their reciprocity agreements to no longer honor specific states' permits. It's good to have two permits
accepted in a state, preventing you from getting jammed up if "caught" carrying a concealed firearm with a permit that's no longer valid there.
Virginia is the latest example of this. They just withdrew their reciprocity agreement with 25 of the 30 states they have honored for a very long time.
It's the reason they did this which is crazy. According to the Virginia Attorney General:
The audit, conducted jointly by the attorney general’s office and the Virginia State Police, found that the requirements to acquire a concealed carry permit in 25 of the 30
states currently recognized by Virginia weren’t strong enough to keep a person from obtaining a permit who would be disqualified under Virginia law.
Those who would be disqualified in Virginia include
people convicted of a felony,
domestic abuse,
or drunk driving.
Mentally ill people and
those dishonorably discharged from the military
are also barred from carrying handguns in Virginia.
The obvious problem is, those specific classes of bared individuals are not legally able to own a gun based on federal laws!
The Gun Control Act (GCA) makes it unlawful for certain categories of persons to ship, transport, receive, or possess firearms.
18 USC 922(g). Transfers of firearms to any such prohibited persons are also unlawful. 18 USC 922(d).
These categories include any person:
Under indictment or information in any court for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
who is a fugitive from justice;
who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance;
who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution;
who is an illegal alien;
who has been discharged from the military under dishonorable conditions;
who has renounced his or her United States citizenship;
who is subject to a court order restraining the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of the intimate partner; or
who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence
(enacted by the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, Pub. L. No. 104-208, effective September 30, 1996). 18 USC 922(g) and (n).
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/identify-prohibited-personshttp://danaloeschradio.com/virginia-revokes-reciprocity-based-on-faulty-premisehttps://www.nraila.org/articles/20151222/nra-condemns-virginia-attorney-general-s-decision-to-play-politics-with-self-defense-rightsThe obvious question is, in all their "auditing" of state's CCW rules, did they ever once bother to check the ATF rules above??
If not, they are incompetent.
If they did, they are willfully lying about their reasons.
