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By DEL. ANDY GUEST
Kappahannock News Contributing Writer * The halfway point of this year’s General As^sembly Session was reached on Tuesday when the ' $0USe ant* Senate completed their work and emptied their individual legislative dockets. -1 On Wednesday the two houses passed their posters on to each other for further discussion and debate.
If the volume of phone calls and letters to my office this week are any indication of what the 'ouse will be dealing with as a hot issue during ‘ie last two weeks of the Session, that issue
iuld be a controversial Senate bill that calls for criminal background check and a 10-day waiting '^riod for the legal purchase of an automatic or mi-automatic handgun or rifle, such as the AK ’ and copies of an Israeli Uzi machine pistol.
Proponents argue that the bill will prevent violent shooting incidents such as those which have occurred recently in Richmond and Virginia Beach. i! I Opponents counter by saying that the paperwork involved will only clog up the current records keeping system further and that this bill Mil do very little to keep these weapons out of the bands of violent, dangerous criminals. *1* -t *
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