As promised, attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association this morning filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle, its mayor and police chief, alleging that the city has violated Washington State’s 35-year-old preemption statute by illegally adopting a gun control regulation that includes provisions for fines ranging to $10,000. SAF and […]
Evergreen State Exemplifies Challenge Faced by Grassroots Activists
UPDATED: In a Wednesday article in the Seattle P-I.com, veteran political columnist Joel Connelly clearly identifies the major problem faced by Evergreen State Second Amendment activists, and probably grassroots gun rights advocates everywhere, as they battle to prevent their right to keep and bear arms from being transformed into a government-regulated privilege. Perhaps unintentionally, Connelly […]
Seattle Mayor Signs Gun Control Ordinance Despite State Preemption
UPDATED 7/18/18 @ 2:30 P.M. — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has signed a city ordinance requiring so-called “safe storage” of firearms, with civil penalties for violations, despite a 35-year-old Washington statute that placed sole authority for gun regulation in the hands of the State Legislature. Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second […]
Another WA City Poking at Preemption
Another city in western Washington appears to be preparing to test how far it can get against the state’s 35-year-old preemption statute, and gun rights advocates in any state with a similar law should pay attention to what is happening in the Evergreen State. As Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right […]
Illinois Gov. Rauner Signs ‘Waiting Period’ Bill
The debate over waiting periods and whether they are effective might take on a new dimension in Illinois, after Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday signed a bill establishing a 72-hour wait for the purchase of all firearms, according to the State Journal-Register. Waiting periods for buying guns are popular on the political Left. The […]
‘Another Day, Another Scare Piece About Guns’ — ST Reader
Publication of a 3,500-word report on dementia and guns “in Washington State and elsewhere” over the weekend in the Seattle Times seemed, to more than one reader, to have been curiously timed, and apparently tilted, to support a recently-submitted gun control initiative filed by a Seattle-based gun control lobbying group supported by wealthy elitists. The […]
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