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Sale of Firearms-Virginia

Gun law in the United States is defined by a number of state and federal statutes.  Sale or delivery of firearms is restricted in Virginia like any other U.S. state.  In almost all the states of the U.S., an importer, manufacturer, dealer or collector shall be licensed under the Federal Gun Control Act of 1968, to be a lawful seller.

According to Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-284, a person shall not sell, barter, exchange, furnish, or dispose of by purchase, gift or in any other manner any toy gun, pistol, rifle or other toy firearm, if the same shall, by action of an explosion of a combustible material, discharge blank or ball charges.  Violator of this rule shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.  However, the rules do not prohibit the sale of cap pistols.

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-308.2:1 states that a person who sells, barters, gives or furnishes, or has in his possession or under his control with the intent of selling, bartering, giving or furnishing, any firearm to any person he knows is prohibited from possessing or transporting pursuant to § 18.2-308.1:1, 18.2-308.2, subsection B of § 18.2-308.2:01, or § 18.2-308.7 shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.  This prohibition is not applicable when the person convicted of the felony, adjudicated delinquent or acquitted by reason of insanity has (i) been issued a permit pursuant to subsection C of § 18.2-308.2 or subsection B of § 18.2-308.1:1, (ii) been pardoned or had his political disabilities removed in accordance with subsection B of § 18.2-308.2 or (iii) obtained a permit to ship, transport, possess or receive firearms pursuant to the laws of the United States.

In the state of Virginia, according to Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-308.5, it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, import, sell, transfer or possess any firearm, including machine guns and sawed-off shotguns containing less than 3.7 ounces of electromagnetically detectable metal in the barrel, slide, cylinder, frame or receiver of which, when subjected to inspection by X-ray machines does not generate an image that accurately depicts its shape.  Violators of this rule could be charged with Class 5 felony.


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