In Virginia’s last election, the Democrat Party won narrow majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly. Democrat legislators then promptly proposed a series of gun control measures. Among these was a ban on the purchase of so-called “assault weapons” patterned after a similar federal ban enacted by Congress in 1994 and signed by President Bill Clinton. (Although the federal statute sunsetted in 2004, it was in force long enough to establish conclusively that – quite unsurprisingly – it had had no measurable or detectable effect on the use by criminals of firearms.) Simultaneously, the Democrats have proposed additional equally fatuous...