Issue Position: Protecting the 2nd Amendement

Issue Position

Delegate Gilbert is a recognized leader in protecting our individual right to keep and bear arms and has an "A+" career rating from the National Rifle Association. The National Rifle Association awarded Delegate Gilbert the "Defender of Freedom Award" at the 146th National Rifle Association annual meeting in Atlanta in April 2017. The Defender of Freedom Award is awarded to individuals who have distinguished themselves in preserving and protecting our Second Amendment rights. He has sponsored a number of initiatives aimed at expanding the right to carry a concealed firearm for personal protection. He sponsored a bill, now the law, to ensure that law-abiding citizens who posses a concealed handgun permit no longer have to be disarmed in Virginia's restaurants when they go out to dinner with their family. In 2012, he was the chief co-sponsor of the bill that repealed Virginia's "one gun a month" handgun rationing law. Delegate Gilbert does not believe that law-abiding citizens should have to get the permission of their government to carry a concealed firearm. He believes that the only outcome achieved by more gun laws and restrictions, including so-called "gun-free zones", is to disarm good, law-abiding people while ensuring they are at the mercy of armed predators who will never follow the law.

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