Hey, we're at the NRA annual meetings in Houston, and unbelievably, we have, well, it's easy to say rock star, but you are. Harmie Dillon is the Assistant Attorney General in charge of Civil Rights Division. And within that, you have the Second Amendment section now. Yes. We talked at Shotshow. Things have been happening since Shotshow. Yeah. The big thing everybody wants to know about is what's going on in Virginia.

Yeah, well, you know, Virginia used to be a place.

I mean, of course, it changes hands with the governor every four years.

But it used to be a place where hunting was respected.

You know, I have colleagues in my office who have, you know, AR-15s in their homes.

And, you know, enjoy hunting and enjoy self-defense.

And suddenly we have this new governor who is in the mode of a California or a New York-style crackdown on firearms.

And so she has encouraged the legislature to send her this package of radical bills that

really strip not just gun owners of their freedoms, but also take square aim at gun manufacturers,

require gun owners to render their firearms inoperable, you know,

impose liability that is at odds with federal law regarding manufacturer and even a law that

impacts so-called ghost guns and gun manufacture of parts. And so this package of bills is very

radical. And, you know, when I learned about

it, I sent, after the legislature passed their package, I sent a letter to the governor on,

just like last week, about less than two weeks ago, warning her that if she signed some of these

bills, we would file suit. And so she has signed two of

these bills that I think are concerning. She sent the so-called assault weapons ban back to the

legislature with some technical amendments that make it worse. Makes it worse. And she hasn't gotten

that back yet. And even if it gets past, the other sneaky

thing about the legislature and the governor's scheme is that they have a referendum going on right now

regarding redistricting. So they've literally set the effective date out of these bad bills to be just

beyond that. So they don't want to be judged on the- People are going to notice. The gun ban. They don't want people to say, oh, you did a gun ban, so we're going to vote against you on that. Right. I want to set this up for, make sure that people understand, because I was there 30 years ago when the gun control group, I called them the gun ban lobby, instituted a number of lawsuits against manufacturers.

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