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2017 SESSION
17103727DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 18.2-283 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 18.2-283. Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship.
If any person carry any gun, pistol, bowie knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon, without good and sufficient
reason, to a place of worship while a
meeting for religious purposes is being held at such place
without express authorization from such
place of religious worship, he
shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.