Virginia Delegate Ken Plum (D-Fairfax) has introduced gun control legislation for the state’s newly elected Democrat majority to pass.

Plum’s legislation criminalizes private gun sales by requiring all gun sales, retail or private, to run through a government database.

The Center Square reports that Plum has introduced the legislation numerous times before, “but…[it] failed to pass through the Republican-controlled legislature.” Yet he is hopeful for passage now, as he believes the Democrat victories mean “the public wants common sense bills” regarding gun control.

Plum’s legislation comes months after the May 31, Virginia Beach shooting, in which 12 innocents were killed.

Ironically, his bill would not have hindered, much less prevented, that shooting, as the attacker acquired his guns “legally“. (That means he bought them at retail through a process that already includes a background check.)

Here is a short list containing the names of other attackers who would not have been stopped by criminalizing private gun sales, as they all bought their firearms “legally” too:

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