In protest of President Barack Obama’s recent announcement proposing a strengthening of gun control laws and enforcement in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, gun rights advocates coordinated a march on Capital Square in Richmond on Saturday. Estimated at 150 people, the crowd consisted not exclusively of central Virginians but of a wide range of participants representing the state as a whole, according to the Richmond-Times Dispatch. Richmond was but one of many capital cities nationwide to be targeted by gun rights activists as part of the collective “Guns Across America” rally. Dominated by Republicans generally favoring strict observance of the Second Amendment, Congress is not expected to pass — or even necessarily bring to the floor — any legislation that would place further limitations on gun owners
