Virginia prosecutor and U.S. Marine veteran Ryan Mehaffey is making clear he will not enforce the “assault weapons” ban Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed into law.
FOX News reported that Mehaffey is the “commonwealth attorney for Spotsylvania County.” He sent a letter to his county sheriff to tell him his position that the ban is “unconstitutional and cannot be lawfully enforced.”
Mehaffey noted, “Our founders were careful to make sure when they drafted our founding document, that the ultimate right of the people was preserved to defend themselves and to defend their community. … So, the linchpin of the constitutional analysis is going to be does this instrument have some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a regulated militia.”
Breitbart News noted that Spanberger signed the ban on wildly popular semiautomatic rifles and certain shotguns in mid-May.