During the Terry McAuliffe administration, the AG, Mark Herring, decided to remove CCW reciprocity with a number of other states that he personally deemed did not meet the same training standards as did Virginia. As a consequence of that, most of the states he targeted said they would stop recognizing Virginia permits. The hypocrisy was that in Virginia, a “shall issue” state, all one had to do was go on line and take a test to receive your training certificate to qualify for a permit! No classroom and/or ‘hands on’ training required. Thankfully groups like Virginia Citizen’s Defense League and a Republican General Assembly was able to put a stop to it. We may not be as lucky next time now that we have another socialist administration under Gov. “Whats his face”. As a safeguard, many of us took the classroom training and applied for a Utah non-resident CCW permit that is recognized in over 30 states. Should the socialists pull the same stunt again and are successful, I’ll just dust off my Utah permit if traveling out of state.
