Glen Sturtevant, after opposing red flag bills for three straight years, voted for one in 2019. In this year’s Republican primary, he apologized for the 2019 vote, saying he opposes red flag laws and promising to lead a charge to repeal Virginia’s law.
Democrats won control of the Senate and the House of Delegates in the 2019 election, when Sturtevant was defeated. The next year, they passedSturtevant, in his Republican primary bid this year, has been repeatedly asked about his 2019 support for a red flag law and recanted his vote.
Sturtevant noted that when the 2019 bill came up, red flag laws were"an idea that was getting pushed by President Trump and the NRA. At the time, we thought it was a way to help stop some of the shootings by the mentally ill folks. We have seen since then that it is an abusive and bad policy."
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