On April 8, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued an advisory opinion in response to Delegate Mark Cole’s (R-88) request as to whether it is permissible for a citizen to carry his firearm into a place of worship for personal safety purposes and whether a church may ban weapons on its property under §18.2-283. This statute requires a “good and sufficient reason for carrying a firearm into a place of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held at such place.”
In Opinion #11-043, Attorney General Cuccinelli found that “carrying a weapon for personal protection constitutes a good and sufficient reason under the statute to carry a weapon into a place of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held there and it is further my opinion that places of worship can restrict or ban firearms from their premises.”
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