In the News: Virginia Advances ‘Gangbanger Bill of Rights’ To Withhold Gun Crime Evidence From Federal Government

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Think Progress
By 
Josh Israel on Jan 25, 2013

Delegate Alfonso Lopez (D), who voted against the bill in committee, told ThinkProgress, he believes the bill is unconstitutional. “Say the federal government was investigating a gun-runner in Virginia,” he observed, “local police would not be allowed to assist the FBI or the ATF with providing addresses, contact information, or phone numbers. It has unintended consequences, is overly broad, and is the wrong direction for Virginia to be going.”


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