A ban on AR-15s, suppressors, and ammunition magazines holding greater than 15 rounds, handed the U.S. Virgin Islands’ legislature Friday and is headed to the governor’s desk.
The gun controls are contained in Invoice 36-0144.
The Virgin Islands Consortium reported the invoice additionally “[requires] security coaching for licensed rifle and shotgun holders.”
The invoice has been strongly opposed by gun rights teams however Virgin Islands Legal professional Common Gordon Rhea helps it.
Rhea pointed to how the gun management invoice incorporates language permitting hid carry in public and claimed the invoice “was written to guard the constitutional rights of law-abiding Virgin Islanders to maintain and bear arms.”
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He additionally instructed it provides police larger means to “maintain unlawful weapons out of the improper arms.”
Virgin Islands Secure Gun Homeowners’ Kosei Ohno countered Rhea, saying the invoice really burdens “law-abiding individuals who register, prepare, pay, wait, and attempt to obey.”
The Division of Justice’s Civil Rights Division already has a lawsuit filed in opposition to the Virgin Island’s firearm licensing scheme. That lawsuit, filed June 10, 2026, seeks a preliminary injunction in opposition to enforcement of the licensing gun management.
No phrase but on whether or not the DOJ will file a second lawsuit if Invoice 36-0144 is signed into legislation.
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