Grayson County board adopts Second Amendment sanctuary resolution

The Grayson County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt a resolution declaring the county a Second Amendment sanctuary.

The board considered staff’s summary of the multi‑paragraph resolution and then held a roll‑call vote that supervisors recorded in the affirmative. The measure, read and summarized by staff, expresses the board’s opposition to laws the board views as unconstitutional restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms and asks that local funds not be used to implement such restrictions.

During public comment before the vote, Douglas Cox of Independence urged supervisors to approve the measure as a statement of local values and rights. “Your decision to put this to a vote…is much more than a symbolic gesture,” Cox said, adding that the declaration would signal that rural Virginia expects its way of life and constitutional rights to be respected.

Kenneth Nestor, another resident, told the board he had read the resolution and supported it as necessary local pushback to perceived state action.

The board placed the resolution on the agenda, staff summarized its text, and supervisors adopted it by roll call.