Fairfax County to renew annual gun-control effort

Fairfax County Supervisors plan to once again seek a firearms ban in public facilities, a now-perennial vow that comes on the heels of both a controversial gun giveaway last week and last month’s massacre at Virginia Tech.

The General Assembly will meet in January in the first session since the April 16 shooting that claimed the lives of 32 students and faculty, as well as the assailant at the Blacksburg university. It remains unclear how the incident will alter the long-standing debate on gun control the assembly engage in each year.