Democratic Virginia Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner announced they were introducing legislation targeting the rights of gun owners, including a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms and a nationwide “red flag” law.

Democrats in the Virginia state Legislature passed a host of laws, including a ban targeting so-called “assault weapons,” another bill banning supposed “ghost guns” and bills targeting the firearms industry, many of which have beensignedintolawby Gov. Abigail Spanberger. Kaine and Warner announced the introduction of their legislation,S 4339or “The Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act,” in an April 16release.

“Nineteen years ago today, 32 people were tragically killed at Virginia Tech in a senseless act of violence. I was Governor of Virginia at the time, and my memories of the grieving families, friends, and Hokie community will stay with me forever. I’m proud of the Commonwealth’s leadership in taking steps to keep Virginians safe and prevent future tragedies in the years since,” Kaine, the bill’s primary sponsor, said in the release.

Second Amendment supporters blasted the legislation, arguing it proved that the desire for restricting Second Amendment rights from Virginia Democrats, who seized power in the state in November 2025, were not limited to the state level.

Virginia Democrats have reintroduced a Federal “Assault Weapons Ban”, Red Flag Laws, rationing of sales, and other insanity which would completely restructure Federal Laws concerning almost every aspect of firearms sale, ownership, and manufacturing. This is their “Virginia Plan…pic.twitter.com/LOZljltKYc

— Guns Gear & Ammo (@AmmoGear)April 26, 2026

“The NRA has been warning for months that Virginia was never the end game — it was just the beginning. Senators Kaine and Warner’s ‘Virginia Plan’ proves it: this sweeping federal bill nationalizes the Commonwealth’s extreme gun control agenda — including bans on semi-automatic firearm, homemade firearms prohibitions, one-handgun-a-month limits, red flag laws, storage mandates, and more,” NRA-ILA Executive Director John Commerford said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“This is not just a warning, it’s a wake-up call that if progressive politicians retake Washington, they will immediately try to destroy the rights of every law-abiding gun owner in America.”

“It punishes regular citizens and does nothing for crime,” Virginia Civil Defense League President Phillip Van Cleave told the DCNF.

The 13-point plan from Kaine and Warner leads rations gunowners to “one-gun-a-month,” and mandates reporting of lost or stolen firearms before adding new mandates for purported “child access prevention.”

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