VA National Guard Issues Statement Over Calls To Enforce Gun Control

For those who were hoping that Maj. General Williams was going to come out swinging with a Hell no we re not taking anybody s guns , it wasn t going to happen. Even if that s how the adjutant general feels, he s not going to pick a fight with the governor if he doesn t have to. He can kick this can down the road, at least until and if Northam actually requests that the National Guard go into rural counties to look for people who are allowing their 17-year old daughter to hunt unsupervised on their property, or to try to catch someone transferring a firearm without a background check.

If Northam were actually dumb enough to do that, I suspect what he d find is yet another crisis of public confidence on his hands. Not only would he have to deal with dozens of counties and cities that have said no to unconstitutional gun control laws, he d create a crisis within the Virginia National Guard, whose members swear to uphold the Constitution. Many of those National Guardsmen are gun owners and Second Amendment supporters as well, and I suspect there would be a genuine fracturing of the organization over the issue.

In fact, if you read between the lines of the adjutant general s statement, it s clear that McEachin s comment is already causing a stir within the Guard itself. The men and women of the Virginia National Guard signed up to defend freedom, not establish a police state on American soil where soldiers search for scofflaws who refuse to register their rifles with the Virginia State Police.

via bearingarms.com