Virginia law prohibits the knowing manufacture, assembly, importation, purchase, sale, transfer or possession of plastic firearms, or any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major component, is not detectable as a firearm by the types of X-ray machines commonly used in locations like airports, government buildings, and schools.¹ “Plastic firearm” means any firearm containing less than 3.7 ounces of electromagnetically detectable metal in the barrel, slide, cylinder, frame or receiver that when subjected to X-ray inspection does not generate an image that accurately depicts its shape.²

Virginia does not otherwise regulate junk guns or unsafe firearms.