Overflow Crowd Turns Out in Blue County to Support Second Amendment

An overflow crowd of gun-rights supporters turned out on Tuesday evening to the Democratic-controlled Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting to push the locality to declare it would not help enforce unconstitutional gun laws.

The crowd exceeded the auditorium's 350-person seating capacity, and a few dozen people wearing "Guns Save Lives" stickers were left lining the walls. The vast majority came to support residents who requested that the northern Virginia county become a Second Amendment sanctuary, meaning it will refuse to enforce gun laws they consider unconstitutional. After sitting quietly through two hours of discussion about baseball-field lighting, the crowd erupted at the end of each pro-gun speech during the public-comment period.

"I've been reading some of the proposed legislation and I'm very, very concerned about what they're trying to pass," Veronica Slootsky, a health care worker and firearms trainer who spoke at the meeting, told the Washington Free Beacon. "I think it's unconstitutional and endangers folks in Virginia."