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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71593</law_id><section_number>18.2-283</section_number><catch_line>Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Crimes Involving Health and Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Dangerous Use of Firearms or Other Weapons</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>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 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-241; 1960, c. 358; 1962, c. 411; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
