This regulatory scheme is an attempt to bypass the elected members of the General Assembly and the voting citizens of the state.

The Virginia state constitution contains a Bill of Rights which includes:

Article 1, Section 13: Militia; standing armies; military subordinate to civil power. That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

In Virginia, a change to the constitution must first be voted on by the General Assembly and then by a vote of the citizens of the state.

Nowhere in the state constitution is there a provision that allows a regulatory board at the behest of the governor to amend or suspend provisions of the constitution.

This attempt is a danger to all other provisions of the constitution and the duly enacted laws of the Commonwealth if it is allowed to prevail. If a regulating body is allowed to bypass any provision of the constitution, then all other rights of the people are subject to loss at the whim of a few.