2014 Virginia Code
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
§ 18.2-308.1:5. Purchase or transportation of firearm by persons convicted of certain drug offenses prohibited


VA Code § 18.2-308.1:5 (2014) What's This?

Any person who, within a 36-consecutive-month period, has been convicted of two misdemeanor offenses under subsection B of former § 18.2-248.1:1, § 18.2-250 or 18.2-250.1 shall be ineligible to purchase or transport a handgun. However, upon expiration of a period of five years from the date of the second conviction and provided the person has not been convicted of any such offense within that period, the ineligibility shall be removed.

1995, c. 577; 2011, cc. 384, 410; 2014, cc. 674, 719.

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