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- ↑ Restrictions on Multiple Purchases or Sales of Firearms Legal Community Against Violence, 2008 Archived November 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 David Sherfinski (January 31, 2012). "Va. House advances repeal of one-handgun-a-month". Washington Times. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ↑ Aisch, Gregor (13 November 2015). "How Gun Traffickers Get Around State Gun Laws". The New York Times.
- ↑ Pierce, John (2022-08-09). "Purchasing multiple handguns in Virginia". The Law Office of John Pierce, Esq. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ↑ Marimow, Ann E.; Spencer S. Hsu (18 September 2015). "U.S. appeals court strikes down one-gun-a-month law in District". The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ↑ Diana Novak Jones (March 11, 2024). "California's one-gun-a-month law struck down by federal judge".
