The Virginia General Assembly has reached the crossover point in the 2026 legislative session.

Crossover is the halfway mark of the session where each chamber has voted on its own legislation. From this point forward, only bills that passed their original chamber are eligible to move ahead.

This means that there’s now a final list of gun control bills that can realistically become law if not stopped.

While several extreme proposals were defeated, many dangerous bills are still alive and now advance to the opposite chamber for consideration:

• HB 19 and SB 160 Removes firearm rights for three years following a misdemeanor dating relationship conviction, which includes battery offenses as slight as spitting on someone or tearing their shirt pocket in an argument
• HB 21 and SB 27 Allows frivolous civil lawsuits against the firearms industry undermining federal liability protections
• HB 40 and SB 323 Requires serialization of homemade firearms
• HB 110 and SB 496 Criminalizes firearms left in vehicles through fines towing or misdemeanor charges based on vague storage standards
• HB 217 and SB 749 Prohibits the sale, transfer, or purchase of so-called assault firearms and magazines over ten or fifteen rounds depending on the bill version
• HB 229 and SB 173 Prohibits firearms and certain knives in mental health and developmental service facilities
• HB 702 Establishes a state run firearm give back program
• HB 901 Expands Virginia red flag laws
• HB 909 Creates a one hundred foot gun free zone around polling places
• HB 1015 Permanently strips gun rights based on certain hate crime convictions
• SB 38 and HB 93 Requires firearm surrender under protective orders to third parties
• SB 115 Severely restricts concealed handgun permit recognition for out of state permit holders
• SB 272 and HB 626 Bans firearms in buildings of public institutions of higher education
• SB 348 and HB 871 Mandates firearm storage requirements in homes including biometric only storage in some versions
• SB 364 and HB 969 Creates new gun control agencies and workgroups under the guise of violence prevention
• SB 643 and HB 1525 Bans handgun and assault firearm purchases by adults aged eighteen to twenty using an expansive and arbitrary firearm definition
• SB 727 and HB 1524 Prohibits the public carry of various categories of firearms including rifles and shotguns
• SB 763 Imposes an eleven percent excise tax on firearms and ammunition