Last week, Virginia's Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring announced that the state would stop recognizing out-of-state concealed carry weapons permits beginning in February 2016. That so enraged Republican state Sen. Bill Carrico that he's vowed to cut Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe's security detail in response.
"A lot of the governor's power is deferred to the General Assembly at that point and I'll be getting with my colleagues to circumvent everything this governor has done on this point," Carrico said. "I have a budget amendment that I'm looking at to take away his executive protection unit. If he's so afraid of guns, then I'm not going to surround him with armed state policemen."
Lovely. McAuliffe has enraged state Republican lawmakers by vetoing a handful of their pro-gun bills. This move on permits was apparently the last straw. So now there's a not-so veiled invitation by Carrico to the state's gunowners to terrorize their governor.