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Virginia’s annual gun rights rally and more state headlines [1]

['Staff Report', 'More From Author', '- January']

Date: 2024-01

• Gun rights supporters rallied on Capitol Square Monday as Democratic lawmakers prepare to push for tighter restrictions on access to firearms.—Associated Press, Washington Post

• President Joe Biden called Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, to congratulate him on becoming the first Black lawmaker to hold the position.—TheGrio

• Sen. Danica Roem, D-Manassas, blasted the idea of reallocating transportation dollars to pay for the planned sports arena in Northern Virginia.—WTOP

• A Richmond-area man spent roughly $1 million to build the world’s greatest stereo system before he died.—Washington Post

• “Four people, including three Virginia residents, pleaded guilty last week in an illegal duck-hunting operation that involved baiting a Middleburg pond in violation of federal law, resulting in dozens of dead migratory wood ducks.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

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