Virginia Gun Owners: The War is not Over

I won’t mince words here. We lost a battle on November 4th, and the situation in Virginia is dire.

Abigail Spanberger, Ghazala Hashmi, and Jay Jones will soon be sworn into power, and you can bet they are already plotting to strip Virginians of their Second Amendment rights.

Under Governor Youngkin, we dodged a slew of bullets when he vetoed over 27 anti-gun bills. Gov-elect Spanberger will not hesitate to reward her gun control extremists friends. And keep this frightening fact in mind: according to Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action “former volunteers make up 20 percent of the Virginia House Democratic Caucus.”

Let that sink in.

A group of radical anti-gun Democrats now control the Governor’s office, the General Assembly, and the Senate. With Lt. Governor-elect Hashmi able to break ties in the Senate, there is effectively no firewall to stop gun-control legislation.

In 2019-2020, Democrats voted unanimously for every gun-control bill and against every pro-gun bill. In 2026, you can expect the same.

The bills we will be fighting, from a semi-auto ban, red flag laws, gun owner registration and more, are unconstitutional, dangerous, and obviously designed to disarm law-abiding Virginians like you.

This is the un-sugarcoated bad news. Things will likely get worse before they get better. Like I said, we lost a battle.

But things WILL get better, because the war is not over!

Because the Commonwealth is still filled with Patriots like you.

Unfortunately, too many of them stayed home on election day. But they’re still out there, and with your help, we intend to bring them back into the fold.

There Will Be Another Election!

We already have our eye on the crucial 2027 elections, when the entire Virginia Senate as well as the Assembly, will be on the ballot.

It could be tempting to throw up one’s hands in disgust, but what we really need to do is put our hands the plow.

The only way to stop the gun-control agenda long-term is to elect leaders who respect the Second Amendment. And that takes work.

Democrats flipped 13 seats this year. Many of those, and possibly some others, can flip the other way.

Do you remember the Lobby Day in Richmond in 2020, hosted by our friends at VCDL, after the bloodbath we took in the 2019 election?

Over 50,000 gun owners showed up, the largest gun-rights rally in American history.

And in the subsequent election, 7 anti-gunners were thrown out of office.

The next Lobby Day is January 19, 2026, starting at 8 a.m., with a rally at the Bell Tower at 11 a.m.

GOA will be there, and I hope you will be, too.

“We’ll See You in Court”

GOA and its partners are already reviewing legal strategies. While we don’t make these conversations public, we can share GOA’s a few recent legal victories, including a huge one right here in Virgina:

• In Virginia, our legal team got the state’s Universal Registration Checks struck down.
• In Tennessee, we convinced a three-judge panel to turn entire state into the 29th Constitutional Carry state. We are now defending that victory on appeal.
• And legal victories from New York to California have now made it easier for GOA members to travel armed across the country.
  Litigation is expensive, but we can win, and we do win.

We Must Take Action NOW

Virginia’s gun owners cannot afford to wait. Spanberger, Hashmi, and Jones are ready to push their extreme gun-control agenda.

We need your immediate support to fight back. 2026 is going to be a busy, brutal year and we must have the resources to fight:

And between now and November 30th, anyone can also enter into this GOA Sweepstakes!

The future of the Second Amendment in Virginia is in your hands. Stand with GOA today as we prepare for upcoming court battles and future elections.