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Virginia Firearms History: From the First Colony to Constitutional Carry

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:27.590Z

Virginia's firearms history doesn't get talked about enough on ranges and at club meetings — most people think the Second Amendment story starts with the Constitutional Convention and ends with Heller. The reality is messier and more interesting than that, and it starts about 150 years earlier on the James River. ALL men that are fittinge to beare arms, shall bringe their peices to the church. — Virginia General Assembly, 1631-2 That's a mandatory carry law from nearly 400 years ago, and it...

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Virginia Firearms History: From the First Colony to Constitutional Carry

Virginia is the oldest English-speaking colony in North America, and its relationship with firearms is as old as the colony itself. Before there was a United States, there were Virginians carrying muskets to church on the governor's orders. The legal

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