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Virginia has enabling legislation already on the books that permits the supervisors to prohibit carrying a loaded rifle or shotgun in a motor vehicle on a public right-of-way. In 1976, at the request of former supervisor chairman E.P. Luke who asked what could be done to answer landowner complaints on road hunters, game warden Jim Bankston brought that enabling legislation before the board. It was passed unanimously but without the required public advertisement and hearing. A month later it was reconsidered and passed again but this time the board adopted the enabling legislation and not a local ordinance. The judge tossed out the first case brought to court under the statute, holding that you can’t convict anybody on the minutes of a meeting.
In 1978, the “saddle gun law” was again proposed after hunting season brought out the slob hunters. This time, the ordinance was voted down in a 3-2 decision. The same scenorio was repeated in 1980.
Slob hunters now have Thompson Center Contender pistols with an effective range of 250 yards, pistols that shoot rifle cartridges, pistols that aren’t covered in the “saddle gun law” which applies only to rifles and shotguns. Neighboring counties that adopted the law back in 1976 have found that it's no longer effective; gun technology has outstripped this form of hunter control. Virginia has another piece of
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