You did it!

On June 9, 2025, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday signed a memorandum of agreement with Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, ending the 7-year moratorium on Pennsylvania recognizing Virginia concealed handgun permits (CHPs). The agreement was effective immediately.

No longer will the 718K Virginia CHP holders be considered second-class citizens when traveling to or through Pennsylvania. They will now be able to exercise their constitutionally-protected rights without requiring a Pennsylvania non-resident license to carry firearms.

In April of 2018, then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro unilaterally ended Virginia concealed carry reciprocity, a purely anti-gun move without any justification. Virginians were faced with either getting a Pennsylvania non-resident license or face criminal prosecution if they carried their concealed firearm in PA.

To correct this injustice, I met with PA Attorney General Dave Sunday in April of this year along with GOA’s legal counsel, Gilbert Ambler, Esq. One of the chief topics of that meeting was restoring Virginia reciprocity, and we detailed the reasons why then-AG Shapiro’s decision was wrong.

But the story doesn’t end there. I can’t accomplish anything without the backing of GOA’s members and supporters. So, I sent out an alert on June 2nd to pressure Dave Sunday to restore Virginia reciprocity and to get behind HR 38 in Congress.

Your efforts worked! Thousands of your emails and phone calls poured into Dave Sunday’s office, and he got the message. Just a week later, AG Sunday signed the new concealed carry reciprocity agreement with Virginia. 

I also want to thank Virginia Citizens Defense League President Phil Van Cleave for writing his own letter to AG Sunday. This letter proved to be invaluable to our joint effort to reestablish concealed carry reciprocity.

So, please take a moment to send a thank you message to Attorney General Dave Sunday (by using the form above) and encourage him to keep up the good work by signing a letter of support for HR 38, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act in Congress.