West Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc.
PO Box 783 • Morgantown, WV 26507-0783About Us
The West Virginia Citizens Defense League (WVCDL) was formed in January 2007. The WVCDL is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, all-volunteer, grassroots organization of concerned West Virginians who support our individual right to keep and bear arms for defense of self, family, home and state, and for lawful hunting and recreational use, as protected by the state constitution and the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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WVCDL Speaks on Behalf of West Virginia Gun Owners
Click
here to hear WVCDL President Jim Mullins on The
Tom Roten Morning Show on May 12, 2008. Please note we had a bad
phone connection for the first couple of minutes, so you will need to
turn up your sound.
Click
here to hear WVCDL President Jim Mullins and WVCDL Vice President
Keith Morgan testify to the House Judiciary Committee on March 4, 2008,
in opposition to a proposed casino carry ban that was contained in Senate
Bill
417. After our testimony, the committee voted to eliminate the
carry ban language from SB 417 and the bill became law without the
casino carry ban.
For best results, please right-click this link you want to hear, copy the link, and open it separately in your media player.
2008 Election Information
The West Virginia primary election is May 13. Click here for
official voter information from the Secretary of State.
Click here to view
WVCDL candidate
surveys and responses from candidates for Governor, Attorney General,
and the Legislature.
2008 Legislative Session Review
Click here for a review
of the 2008 regular session of the West Virginia Legislature, including
links to the audio of WVCDL's March 4, 2008, testimony to the House
Judiciary
Committee on SB
417.
WVCDL Petitions Division of Motor Vehicles to Eliminate Criminal Protection Zones at DMV Offices
For several years, all offices of the Division of Motor Vehicles have been posted with "gun-free zone" signs indicating that weapons are prohibited inside those offices. There is no state law prohibiting weapons in any of these offices except DMV headquarters at the State Capitol. Yet, these public (owned by the people of West Virginia) offices--which have no metal detectors and are unprotected by police officers or even professional security guards--are deemed off limits to law-abiding citizens who wish only the same level of rights as we enjoy in almost all other public places.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away. WVCDL
opposes so-called "gun-free zones," which we prefer to more accurately
describe as Criminal Protection Zones because they only disarm
law-abiding citizens and provide criminals a safe haven in which they
can rape, rob, or kill with much greater ease because their intended
victims will not have the means of self-defense. Although there is near
limitless commentary on this subject, Wayne
LaPierre and Ted
Nugent (may require registration; click here to
obtain login information and bypass registration process) provide
excellent commentary on the folly of CPZs. Only in very limited
circumstances--such as where a building has strong security measures
including on-duty law-enforcement officers and mandatory metal detector
screenings of visitors and the potential danger of the presence of any
weapons overwhelmingly outweighs the utility of those weapons for
lawful, defensive purposes (such as correctional facilities)--may it be
appropriate to exclude lawfully-carried weapons, even where the person
has a concealed handgun license. This cannot be said of DMV offices.
On March 31, 2008, WVCDL President Jim Mullins wrote a letter to DMV Commissioner Joseph Cicchirillo requesting the removal of these signs and the restoration of our rights on public property. WVCDL encourages everyone to write Commissioner Cicchirillo in support of our proposal to end the criminal protection zones at all DMV offices other than DMV headquarters (which is subject to W.Va. Code § 61-6-19(b)). You may address your letters to:
Commissioner Joseph Cicchirillo Division of Motor Vehicles Building 3, State Capitol Complex 1800 Kanawha Blvd., E. Charleston, WV 25317WV Concealed Carry Reciprocity as of February 20, 2008:
Official state reciprocity information pages:
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-- Arkansas
-- Florida
-- Kentucky
-- Michigan
-- Missouri
-- North
Carolina
Ohio
-- Pennsylvania
-- South
Dakota -- Tennessee
-- Virginia
-- West
Virginia
WVCDL-ALERT
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