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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76539</law_id><section_number>18.2-53.1</section_number><catch_line>Use or display of firearm in committing felony</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>17.1-805</reference><reference>18.2-311.2</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</reference></referred_to_by><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="4">Crimes Against the Person</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Assaults and Bodily Woundings</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>It shall be unlawful for any person to use or attempt to use any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm or display such weapon in a threatening manner while committing or attempting to commit <span class="dictionary">murder</span>, <span class="dictionary">rape</span>, forcible sodomy, inanimate or animate <span class="dictionary">object</span> sexual penetration as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Object sexual penetration; penalty" href="/18.2-67.2/">18.2-67.2</a>, <span class="dictionary">robbery</span>, carjacking, <span class="dictionary">burglary</span>, <span class="dictionary">malicious</span> wounding as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Shooting, stabbing, etc., with intent to maim, kill, etc" href="/18.2-51/">18.2-51</a>, <span class="dictionary">malicious</span> bodily injury to a <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Malicious bodily injury to law-enforcement officers, firefighters, search and rescue personnel, or emergency medical services personnel; penalty; lesser-included offense" href="/18.2-51.1/">18.2-51.1</a>, aggravated <span class="dictionary">malicious</span> wounding as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Aggravated malicious wounding; penalty" href="/18.2-51.2/">18.2-51.2</a>, <span class="dictionary">malicious</span> wounding by mob as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Shooting, stabbing, etc., with intent to maim, kill, etc., by mob" href="/18.2-41/">18.2-41</a> or abduction. Violation of this section shall constitute a separate and distinct <span class="dictionary">felony</span> and any person found guilty thereof shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of three years for a first <span class="dictionary">conviction</span>, and to a mandatory minimum term of five years for a second or subsequent <span class="dictionary">conviction</span> under the provisions of this section. Such punishment shall be separate and apart from, and shall be made to run consecutively with, any punishment received for the commission of the primary <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.</p></section></text><history>1975, cc. 624, 628; 1976, c. 371; 1980, c. 333; 1982, c. 654; 1991, c. 506; 1992, cc. 191, 726; 1993, cc. 549, 835; 1994, c. 950; 2004, c. 461.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
