McDonnell and Virginia side with 2nd Amendment Individual Rights Position

In a press release today, Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell announced that Virginia will join Texas and other states in a friend of court brief supporting individual liberty and and the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled recently in Heller v. District of Columbia that the Second amendment provides an individual right to keep and bear arms and that as a result the District of Columbia's near total ban on possession of arms by private citizens was unconstitutional.

The complete Court of Appeals Decision (courtesy of a great second amendment blog Of Arms & the Law)