Virginia gun sales spike ahead of July 1 assault weapons ban signed by Gov. Spanberger

Gun income successful Virginia person surged successful caller months up of a July 1 prohibition connected the merchantability of battle weapons, according to information from the FBI.

Democrat-sponsored bills that would prohibition the merchantability of semi-automatic rifles oregon pistols that person a mag capableness of much than 15 rounds were introduced successful the legislature successful January and Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed it into instrumentality past month.

Since January, the fig of inheritance checks done for the acquisition of a firearm has gone up exponentially, with 75,376 inheritance checks successful May alone, much than treble the magnitude successful May 2025, during which lone 37,167 were done, according to FBI statistics.

The precocious truthful acold this twelvemonth was successful March erstwhile 79,846 backgrounds checks were done compared to lone 47,069 past year, and successful April, 72,011 were done compared to 40,343 successful 2025.

A full of 347,167 inheritance checks were tally done the extremity of May this year, which is connected way to trounce the 521,283 done successful each of past year.

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AR-15 benignant rifles are displayed for merchantability astatine Blue Ridge Arsenal successful Chantilly, Va., connected Jan. 9, 2015. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

"For the last, I’d say, 3 months, we’ve been moving hard," James Sprouse, a manager astatine Ginger Mafia Tactical, told WDBJ-TV recently. "The 2nd we get them in, they’re retired the door."

Trey Boyd, co-owner of Tactical Operations Vault, said he's selling retired of components for making AR-15-style rifles.

"Like this cabinet... this is wherever I mostly support my stripped lowers," helium told WDBJ. "Usually each rack is wholly full, beforehand to back, and astir each week, it’s wholly wiped out."

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He added, "Firearms that person a mag capableness of much than 15 rounds, we won’t beryllium capable to person anymore, which is simply a bulk of your weapons nowadays. So it’s going to impact america big-time."

Weapons are displayed astatine a weapon store successful Manassas, Va., arsenic weapon and ammunition income person surged amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency)

Boyd said helium hoped the instrumentality would beryllium overturned by the courts.

Under the law, it volition beryllium a misdemeanor to buy, sell, transfer, oregon marque an "assault firearm,"

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the measure into instrumentality past month.

State Sen. Saddam Salim, D-Dunn Loring, who introduced the measure earlier this year, told FairfaxNow that determination are "so galore battle weapons successful circulation" and that his measure volition "gradually" instrumentality them disconnected the thoroughfare but halt abbreviated of retroactively criminalizing possession of immoderate of the slew of newly-categorized "assault weapons."

"Firearms designed to inflict maximum casualties bash not beryllium connected our streets," Spanberger said successful a connection aft she signed the law. "We are taking this measurement to support families and enactment the instrumentality enforcement officers who enactment each time to support our communities safe."