Virginia sheriff vows to deputize residents in response to expected gun control legislation from state Democratic lawmakers

[Zee]

pretty creative solution.
There’s more discussion of it here:

Good news for VA!

That’s brilliant! Good man you’ve got there. I think his oath of office would allow him to not enforce unconstitutional laws, but without the text of it I don’t know for sure. His solution is creative and does add some juice to the consequences of passing unconstitutional laws.

and also here:

Virginia lawmaker fears civil war?

Being from the People 's Republik of Illinois… I think I know how they will do it. In IL we have a lot of counties that have declared themselves 2nd amendment sanctuaries. The head of the IL State Police was replaced by the new Democrat Gov. with a anti-gun appointee. The IL State Police then announced that they would no longer inform the County Sheriffs when they were conducting operations in the county. There is some debate in IL as to whether the ISP can give themselves the permission to…