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By WARREN G. STAMBAUGH
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Blackie Moore’s portrait hangs precariously these days.
Moore’s countenance looks sternly down on the Virginia House of Delegates from a spot just to the left of the podium where the autocratic Berryville apple farmer presided with a firm conservative hand as Speaker of the House from 1950 through 1966.
Since Moore’s heyday as one of the senior Harry Byrd’s chief lieutenants, the character of Virginia and its legislature has undergone dramatic change.
Gun control legislation of any type wouldn’t have seen the light of day in the House that Blackie ruled. In the pay-as-you-go Moore/Byrd jexicon, roads were built only with the gas taxes of those who went on them.
Blackie and Harry would have 3»een stunned to see the 1989 Genial Assembly enact legislation $£hich would require an instanta|jeous criminal records check for Anyone purchasing a handgun with a 3b&rrel less than five inches long or a jHfle equipped with a clip holding $»ore than 20 cartridges. Yet, the Jill passed the House of Delegates on a vote of 81-15.
The conservative leadership of the 1950’s and 1960’s would have been shocked at the audacity of the concept of local governments using the sacrosanct income tax - heretofore reserved exclusively for state
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