The following gun-control bills are in the Senate:

SB 27, Senator Carroll Foy, allows a highly regulated industry, the firearms industry, to be sued civilly for a variety of already illegal actions.

SB 38, Senator Favola, requires a person with a protective order against them or a person with a domestic violence conviction to surrender, sell, or turn their guns over to someone 21-years-old or older and someone who does not live with them. 

SB 115, Senator Pekarsky, severely restricts concealed handgun permit recognition with other states.

SB 160, Senator Perry, makes battery in a “dating relationship” a misdemeanor and takes away the right to purchase, possess, or transport a firearm for three years.

SB 173, Senator Williams Graves, prohibits firearms, or knives with a blade longer than 3.5 inches, in facilities that provide mental health services or developmental services, including hospitals, emergency departments, or emergency medical care facilities, if they offer such services.

SB 272, Senator Deeds, restricts firearms at public institutions of higher education by requiring such firearms be part of an authorized program or activity inside a building.

SB 323, Senator Ebbin, makes unfinished firearm frames and receivers and un-serialized commercially made firearms unlawful to possess, purchase, sell, or transfer unless they are serialized.

SB 348, Senator Boysko, requires all firearms in a home, that are not being carried on or about a person, to be unloaded and placed in a locked container if there is a minor in the home or if there is a prohibited person in the home.  A gun may only be stored loaded if it is in a biometric safe.

SB 364, Senator Carroll Foy, creates a state agency named the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention.

SB 496, Senator Marsden, requires a handgun in an unattended vehicle to be stored in a locked hard-sided container that is placed out of plain view.

SB 643, Senator Surovell, requires a person to have a permit to purchase a firearm (“permit”), which is good for 5 years.  It can take 2 months to get such a permit.

SB 727, Senator Jones, prohibits the carry of certain loaded semi-automatic rifles, pistols, or shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, public right-of-way, or in any public park or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public in the Commonwealth.

SB 749, Senator Salim, prohibits the sale, possession, transfer, and transport of an “assault firearm” made on or after July 1, 2026.  It also prohibits sale, possession, transfer, and transport of an “assault firearm” to anyone under the age of 21.  Magazines that hold more than 10 rounds and were made on or after July 1, 2026, are prohibited.

SB 797, Senator Carroll Foy, requires a person to have a permit to purchase a firearm (“permit”), which is good for 5 years.  It can take 2 months to get such a permit.

The following  pro-gun bills are in the Senate and being heard in committee:

SB 723, Senator Sturtevant, permitless carry.