{"id":4975,"date":"2026-03-15T08:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/virginias-gun-crackdown-ignores-the-real-failure-releasing-an-isis-linked-felon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:45:36","slug":"virginias-gun-crackdown-ignores-the-real-failure-releasing-an-isis-linked-felon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/virginias-gun-crackdown-ignores-the-real-failure-releasing-an-isis-linked-felon\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia\u2019s Gun Crackdown Ignores The Real Failure: Releasing An ISIS-Linked Felon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A convicted ISIS terrorist walked into a gun-free school zone and murdered a United States Army officer. This was a targeted attack on an educator of our future military service members. But Soros-backed Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney Ramin Fatehi just stood at a microphone and blamed lawmakers for gun violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, I sit on the Virginia House of Delegates Criminal Subcommittee of the Courts of Justice Committee. I have watched Fatehi advocate year after year for soft-on-crime policies that lead to tragedies just like this.<\/span><\/p>\n

The real question is why was Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a felon convicted of supporting ISIS, in possession of a firearm, especially in a gun free school zone? And why was Jalloh released 3 years early on an 11-year prison stint? These are the failures of soft-on-crime politicians more interested in policing federal ICE agents that protect their own citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Screenshot: LiveNOW from FOX on YouTube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That failure raises a larger question about what Virginia\u2019s lawmakers are doing right now in Richmond.<\/span><\/p>\n

Strangling The Second Amendment<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The 2026 Virginia General Assembly session ends this week. When the gavel falls, Governor Abigail Spanberger will have on her desk a stack of gun bills unlike anything this Commonwealth has ever produced \u2014 not a single sweeping law, but a coordinated layering of restrictions designed to strangle the Second Amendment from every direction at once. Which gun you can buy. Where you can carry it. Whether the industry that makes it can survive being sued into submission. How you pass it on when you\u2019re gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

No single bill tells the whole story. The story is the stack \u2014 and what that stack adds up to is the systematic dismantling of our Second Amendment rights in Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Semi-automatic<\/p>\n

Zocha_K. Getty Images.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What They Banned<\/b><\/h3>\n

Start with <\/span>SB 749<\/strong>, the centerpiece. <\/span><\/p>\n

It criminalizes the import, sale, manufacture, purchase, and transfer of so-called \u201cassault firearms\u201d \u2014 semi-automatic centerfire rifles, pistols, and shotguns identified not by how they function, but by how they look. A folding stock. A pistol grip. A threaded barrel. Cosmetic features that have no bearing on rate of fire. The identical firearm with a wooden stock is legal. The one with a synthetic pistol grip is contraband after July 1. Firearms you already own before that date are grandfathered for possession \u2014 but you cannot sell them to another Virginian. You can sell to a dealer or transfer them out of state (but that\u2019s a federal Class 5 Felony). And how does a family who wishes to move to Virginia with their firearms \u2013 are they not \u201cimporting\u201d assault firearms? You can pass them by inheritance to family. Beyond that, your grandfathered rifle is a dead-end asset.<\/span><\/p>\n

The magazine provision is worse.<\/p>\n

SB 749<\/strong> also bans the import, sale, transfer, or purchase of any magazine capable of holding more than 15 rounds. Possession of magazines you already own is not criminalized \u2014 but you cannot sell them or transfer them to any other Virginian under any circumstances. The only lawful exits for a grandfathered magazine are surrender to a federally licensed dealer or transfer out of state. Notably, while the bill creates an explicit inheritance exception for grandfathered firearms, it creates no parallel exception for grandfathered magazines. A son can inherit his father\u2019s rifle under this bill. The 15+ round magazines that feed it are a different matter \u2014 there is no provision in the final enrolled text that permits passing them to an heir within Virginia. What you own today is frozen in place, and the law has made no arrangement for what happens to it when you are gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Background check data tells you what Virginians think about this: adjusted NICS checks in February 2026 jumped 55 percent over February 2025 as gun owners raced to the counters before the deadline.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"STOKESDALE,<\/p>\n

Photo by Brian Blanco\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What They Banned You From Carrying<\/b><\/h3>\n

The ban on future purchases was not enough. <\/span>SB 727<\/b> \u2014 passed both chambers and headed to the Governor \u2014 prohibits carrying these same broadly defined \u201cassault firearms\u201d on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, right-of-way, or park. The bill strips concealed handgun permit holders of any exemption, even though those permit holders have carried legally for years without incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

The practical effect in much of Virginia \u2014 in the rural Southwest, in the Shenandoah Valley, in communities where the nearest deputy might be thirty minutes away \u2014 is that the firearm most commonly chosen for home and property defense can no longer lawfully accompany you beyond your front door.<\/span><\/p>\n

What They Did to the Industry<\/b><\/h3>\n

SB 27 and HB 21<\/b> gut the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act at the state level. They create a Virginia cause of action against firearms manufacturers, distributors, and retailers based on a vague \u201cresponsible conduct\u201d standard. There is no clear definition of what responsible conduct requires \u2014 which is the point. Ambiguity is the weapon. The goal is not to compensate real victims. It is to make the cost of doing business in Virginia high enough that manufacturers and dealers either comply with whatever standard the next attorney general invents or exit the market entirely. You cannot exercise a right the industry has been sued out of existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

What They Did to Home Gunsmiths<\/b><\/h3>\n

HB 40<\/b> makes building, importing, selling, transferring, or possessing an unserialized firearm, including pieces of an unassembled build, a Class 5 felony \u2014 punishable by up to ten years in prison. The bill reaches unfinished frames and receivers. Home gunsmithing has a tradition in this country as old as the Republic itself. Under HB 40, it would now be a felony in Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Layer They Almost Added<\/b><\/h3>\n

Several additional bills survived crossover before stalling or being amended in the final days. A permit-to-purchase scheme would have required Virginians to obtain a government-issued license from the State Police before buying a handgun. Who knows what kind of barriers they could create in the name of \u201csafety.\u201d A vehicle storage bill would have criminalized a firearm left in a car under vague standards. A public carry ban on the House side mirrored SB 727 with even broader definitions. An age prohibition would have barred adults under 21 from purchasing handguns or assault firearms entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of these did not survive in their original form. Others will return. The direction of travel is not ambiguous. I\u2019ve been here long enough to see them again and again from the relentless Left.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"WASHINGTON,<\/p>\n

Yasin Ozturk \/ Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What This Actually Is<\/b><\/h3>\n

Consider the cumulative picture. You cannot purchase the most popular class of semi-automatic firearms in America after July 1. Magazines over 15 rounds are contraband \u2014 you can keep what you have, but can barely use what is now monetarily valueless. You cannot carry these firearms publicly even with a concealed handgun permit. The dealer who sells them faces open-ended civil liability under a standard no one can define. The manufacturer who builds them faces the same. Home building is a felony. It is a complete dismantling of the firearms industry. Death by a thousand tiny, deceitful infringements on our constitutional rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

At what point does regulation become intentionally burdensome to the detriment of an industry the controlling party despises? Take fossil fuels, for example. How many green energy policies can you put on a coal-fired power generation plant before it\u2019s no longer economically feasible to continue operation? At what point does the layering of burden after burden, and infringement after infringement, become a weaponized strategy rather than a policy choice?<\/span><\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore warned on the floor that banning firearms in common use among millions of law-abiding Americans invites a constitutional reckoning. He is right. Gun rights organizations have already promised litigation the moment Spanberger signs the bill into law.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime, Virginians who did nothing wrong \u2014 they bought their rifles legally, they hold concealed handgun permits, they have never committed a crime in their lives \u2014 are watching their God-given constitutional rights be stripped away layer by layer by a majority that answers to Northern Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is the arithmetic of 2025\u2019s election results. Governor Spanberger is expected to sign. When she does, every Virginian in every competitive district \u2014 every community that believed a Democratic majority in the House, Senate, and the Governor\u2019s Mansion would exercise any restraint \u2014 should ask a simple question: Is this what you voted for?<\/p>\n

Sure, Democrats aren\u2019t \u201ccoming for your guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

They\u2019re just making sure they are rendered completely useless under the law.<\/p>\n

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Del. Wren Williams represents Virginia\u2019s 47th House District (Patrick County and surrounding area). He is an attorney and a member of the House Republican Caucus.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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