Virginia has seen a spike in gun sales since abolishing a long-standing state law that limited buyers to one handgun a month.

The state recorded slightly more than 29,000 firearm transactions in the month since the limit was lifted July 1. That’s a 17 percent jump from June, the last month the restrictions were in place, according to the Virginia Firearms Transaction Center. It’s a 29 percent jump compared with July 2011, when 22,547 transactions were recorded.