Here's the text of just ONE of Virginia Democrats' gun-confiscation laws

If you know anything about how bills--the things that eventually become laws--are written, you know that the provisions the politicians know most voters will hate are always buried way down in the text.

That's because they know 99% of the voters never read that far down, so never see how they're about to get shafted.

Consider this bill from Virginia--"SB-16."  The Democrats who now control the entire state government--both chambers and the governorship--have bleated that this is a "gun-safety bill," but its actual effect would be to criminalize the private ownership of 95% of the guns owned today.

The full text is here--and because you can't believe the Dems could possibly be this brazen in their gun-confiscation efforts, I encourage you to click the link and see for yourself that I'm telling you the truth.  The language that will make owning most guns a "class-6 felony" is at the very end of the bill:

§18.2-308.8. Importation, sale, possession, etc., of assault firearms prohibited; penalty.

A. For the purposes of this section "Assault firearm" means:

1. A semi-automatic center-fire rifle that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material with a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 10 rounds;

2. A semi-automatic center-fire rifle that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material that has the ability to accept a detachable magazine and has one of the following characteristics: (i) a folding or telescoping stock; (ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the rifle; (iii) a thumbhole stock; (iv) a second handgrip or a protruding grip that can be held by the non-trigger hand; (v) a bayonet mount; (vi) a grenade launcher; (vii) a flare launcher; (viii) a silencer; (ix) a flash suppressor; (x) a muzzle brake; (xi) a muzzle compensator; (xii) a threaded barrel capable of accepting (a) a silencer, (b) a flash suppressor, (c) a muzzle brake, or (d) a muzzle compensator; or (xiii) any characteristic of like kind as enumerated in clauses (i) through (xii);

3. A semi-automatic center-fire pistol that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material with a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 10 rounds;

4. A semi-automatic center-fire pistol that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material that has the ability to accept a detachable magazine and has one of the following characteristics: (i) a folding or telescoping stock; (ii) a thumbhole stock; (iii) a second handgrip or a protruding grip that can be held by the non-trigger hand; (iv) the capacity to accept a magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip; (v) a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits the shooter to hold the pistol with the non-trigger hand without being burned; (vi) a manufactured weight of 50 ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded; (vii) a threaded barrel capable of accepting (a) a silencer, (b) a flash suppressor, (c) a barrel extender, or (d) a forward handgrip; or (viii) any characteristic of like kind as enumerated in clauses (i) through (vii);

Did you catch the "gotcha" clause--the one that makes the most popular rifles illegal to own?  If you didn't, don't feel bad--they wrote this so almost no one would recognize it.  It's cleverly hidden well below the phrases that are intended to make most readers think their definition of an "assault firearm" can't possibly apply to their guns--provisions like paragraph 2: 'It's an assault firearm if it has a bayonet mount or a grenade launcher or a flare launcher or a silencer or a muzzle brake or a muzzle compensator or a threaded barrel capable of accepting those.'

So look again.  Did you spot it this time?

It's in paragraph 4, clause (iv): "the capacity to accept a magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip."

If you're not familiar with firearms I won't bore you with details, but this clause would make it illegal to own the most popular "semi-automatic" rifles.

Now, you don't live in Virginia so why should you care about what laws their cunning Democrat politicians pass, eh?

Because this is a "trial balloon."  If the Democrats get away with passing this, every other Dem-ruled state will rush to pass exactly the same law. 

"But I don't own an 'assault firearm,' so this doesn't affect me at all!"

Oh, well, in that case just disregard all of the above.  Hopefully someone else will defend you rights, since you clearly won't.