Virginia Code

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-283 (2026)

Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship

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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 he shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.

Code 1950, § 18.1-241; 1960, c. 358; 1962, c. 411; 1975, cc. 14, 15.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2018–2018 · leading case: Christopher Parris Cabral v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 815 S.E.2d 805 (Va. Ct. App. 2018).

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Christopher Parris Cabral v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 815 S.E.2d 805 (Va. Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 2× “2-248(C)(4)(b) (excluding persons from mandatory minimum punishment for unauthorized manufacture or distribution of, or possession with intent to manufacture or distribute, controlled substances when they did not “possess a firearm or other dangerous weapon”); Code § 18.2-283…”

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