In this episode of Bold Dominion: guns and gun policy.

On May 31st, 2019, a disgruntled city employee in Virginia Beach shot and killed twelve people in a mass shooting at a Virginia Beach municipal building.

Weeks later, Virginia’s Democratic governor Ralph Northam called a special summer session of the General Assembly -- specifically to consider new gun safety measures. But the Republican controlled Assembly voted to close that session within just a few minutes. No new gun laws passed.

Last November’s elections changed all that. With new Democratic majorities in both houses, Governor Northam vowed to reintroduce some of these gun safety measures.

But that has led to its own kind of blowback.