As a majority of local counties in Virginia are declaring themselves “Second Amendment sanctuaries,” a direct response to a new push by Democrats to pass stricter gun control measures, one of the state’s county sheriffs says he'll “deputize citizens” as auxiliary deputies to protect their constitutional right to bear firearms.
Officials in Second Amendment sanctuaries generally state that they won’t follow new gun laws they believe are unconstitutional. Over 70 of the 95 counties in the state have declared or adopted some form of sanctuary policy, as of Dec. 18.
