Virginia Senate Bill 1181

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-21 - Impact statement from VCSC (SB1181)
Hearing: Jan 22 @ 9:00 am in Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is defined in the bill, and prohibits a person who has been convicted of such violation from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm for a period of three years from the date of conviction. The bill provides that an assault firearm does not include any firearm that is an antique firearm, has been rendered permanently inoperable, is manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action, or was manufactured before July 1, 2025. The bill also prohibits the sale of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill provides that any person who willfully and intentionally (i) sells an assault firearm to another person or (ii) purchases an assault firearm from another person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and that any person who imports, sells, barters, or transfers a large capacity ammunition feeding device is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person younger than 21 years of age to import, sell, manufacture, purchase, possess, transport, or transfer an assault firearm regardless of the date of manufacture of such assault firearm.

Assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices; purchase, etc., prohibited, penalty.

Sen. Creigh Deeds [D]	Sen. Saddam Salim [D]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]
Sen. Barbara Favola [D]	Sen. Ghazala Hashmi [D]	Sen. Mamie Locke [D]	Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-21	Senate	Impact statement from VCSC (SB1181)
2025-01-17	Senate	Committee substitute printed 25105212D-S1
2025-01-17	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
2025-01-10	Senate	Impact statement from VCSC (SB1181)
2025-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2025-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100426D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1181
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1181/text/SB1181
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1181/text/SB1181SC1
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1181/text/SB1181S1
Supplement	https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1018578.PDF
Supplement	https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1024917.PDF