Six More Localities Join 2A Localities Bringing the Total to 101

Beginning yesterday afternoon, five more localities joined the Second Amendment Sanctuary movement.  The first was Mathews County, which had a huge turnout, many of which took off from work to attend the meeting and show their support for the resolution.  It was approved on a vote of 4-1. Then came Frankly County where another large crowd showed up in late afternoon.  That resolution also passed unanimously (7-0).

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Then the evening meetings began.  Prince Edward County met at Prince Edward High School and another large crowd filed the auditorium.

Auditorium is pretty close to capacity with a steady stream of folks still coming inside. We’re almost ready to begin the meeting with at least 350 in attendance and more on the way. pic.twitter.com/JpFn8wNuz1

— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) December 17, 2019

Bearingarms.com's Cam Edwards was live tweeting from Prince Edward and shared that one speaker identified himself as a member of the Virginia National Guard, said he was speaking in his capacity as a private citizen and asked for approval of the #2A Sanctuary resolution to a round of cheers from the crowd.

York County also approved a resolution last night making it a Constitutional County. There are several other localities that have previously approved resolutions that took the route that York County did last night.  The resolution passed on a vote of 4-1, and according to 13 News, the one supervisor that voted against the resolution said she was torn:

Noll said she was torn because she supports the second amendment and gun rights, but disagreed with the process. She said the resolution came too soon and too fast for a thorough vetting of the legal ramifications the county might face.

Shortly after 11 PM, Stafford County passed a Sanctuary resolution.  Gun owners turned out by the thousands.  WJLA ABC News 7 reported that over 2000 people showed up, and there were even food trucks and a "Party in the Parking Lot".  The Board Room only held about 200.

Photo by WJLA ABC News7 Heather Graf

Photo by WJLA ABC News 7

The Board voted 7-0 to officially designate Stafford as a Second Amendment Sanctuary.  WJLA's Victoria Sanchez reported via Twitter that the Stafford County Democratic Party issued the below statement:

The Stafford Co. Democratic Committee sent me this statement regarding #SecondAmendmentSanctuary:
“... we do not support the effort of gun rights activists to enlist local governments to aid in their push to dramatically reinterpret the historic meaning of that right.” @ABC7News pic.twitter.com/w3inv4Tyed

— Victoria Sanchez (@VictoriaSanchez) December 18, 2019

Finally, the Town of Vinton, which is in Roanoke County, passed a resolution by a vote of 4-1.

Accomack and Amelia County will consider resolutions tonight.