A judge for the 24th Judicial Circuit Court in Virginia struck down a law requiring background checks for all gun sales, including private transactions, in a decision filed on Oct. 29.
In an Oct. 16 letter explaining his decision, Judge, F. Patrick Yeatts cautioned that his ruling was not on the constitutionality of criminal background checks and that the law was so flawed that the only solution was to scrap it altogether.
“Let it be clear, the Court today is not holding that background checks are unconstitutional. That is a question for another day, perhaps another court,” he wrote. “Today the Court holds that the manner in which Virginia [law] is applied cannot pass constitutional muster.”…