Fairfax County urged Congress and Virginia lawmakers to ban assault weapons, raise the age for gun purchases and allow local jurisdictions more authority to enact their own gun laws.
But, amid protests in Richmond by gun rights activists who arrived from around the country, the then-Democratically controlled state legislature stopped short on an assault weapons ban, partly because it proved difficult to define the weapons and agree on how to enforce a ban.
Other officials in Northern Virginia have been working to increase the pressure on Youngkin and other Republican leaders.
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