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Code of Virginia
Title 15.2. Counties, Cities and Towns
Chapter 9. General Powers of Local Governments
7/13/2026

§ 15.2-915.5. Disposition of firearms acquired by local law-enforcement agencies or localities.

A. No locality or agent of such locality may participate in any program in which individuals are given a thing of value provided by another individual or other entity in exchange for surrendering a firearm to the locality or agent of such locality unless (i) the governing body of the locality has enacted an ordinance, pursuant to § 15.2-1425, authorizing the participation of the locality or agent of such locality in such program or (ii) the program is a voluntary gun buy-back or give-back program for the surrendering of an assault firearm as defined in § 18.2-308.2:2.

B. Any firearm received as part of a firearm give-back or sell-back program as authorized by § 15.2-915.6 shall be destroyed by the local law-enforcement agency or locality.

2012, c. 211; 2020, cc. 1205, 1247; 2026, cc. 1067, 1106, 1107.

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