The New York Times laments the lax gun laws in Virginia:

As it stands now, a pipeline of illegal weapons flows with little impediment to New York from Virginia. . .where gun dealers easily sell to traffickers through "straw sales," in which a qualified third party � without a criminal record � acts as the buyer.

The key law would allow an individual to purchase only one handgun per month.

"This is not pie-in-the-sky," Clarke said yesterday. "Limiting purchases to one handgun a month helped reduce gun violence in Virginia, which used to be the gun capital of the East Coast because laws were so lax."