The gun debate in Virginia took another turn after a Republican state senator said he was told that his attempt to pass an amendment giving the state’s sheriff departments a 3 percent raise failed because of opposition by some sheriffs to Gov. Ralph Northam’s anti-gun agenda.
When Sen. William Stanley on Feb. 20 had tried to amend the state budget with the wage increase, it was defeated—with every Democrat voting against it. Stanley alleged that after the vote, he was approached by Senate Majority Leader Richard Saslaw, a Democrat.
