The King County, WA Board of Health is holding two sessions to discuss its proposed “Gun Safety Action Plan.” (Dave Workman) King County is the bluest county in Washington State, and for the next two evenings, the county Board of Health is holding meetings on its “Gun Safety Action Plan Summit” with proposals that, according […]
Second Amendment Foundation Calls for End of ‘Gun-Free Zones’
The Second Amendment Foundation has launched an ambitious effort to end so-called “gun-free zones.” Citing their “false sense of security,” the Second Amendment Foundation has launched an ambitious effort to end so-called “gun-free zones” with an advertising campaign for print and online publications. “For more than two decades,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President […]
Is Coverage Different About ‘Man with Gun’ Killed at Tacoma’s NDC?
After Tacoma Police fatally shot an armed man—later identified as Willem Van Spronsen of Vashon Island—who was protesting, and apparently trying to destroy, the Northwest Detention Center (NDC), was news coverage somehow different than it might have been had the dead man been identified as a right-wing deportation activist and Second Amendment advocate? Van Spronsen […]
D.C. Attorney General Subpoenas NRA, NRA Foundation
UPDATED: The District of Columbia’s attorney general on Friday issued subpoenas to the National Rifle Association and the NRA Foundation in what Newsweek called “a series of ongoing probes into the gun-rights group and its finances.” According to the Washington Post, “The office of Attorney General Karl Racine is seeking financial documents from the NRA […]
Anti-Gunners Lament: Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Gun Control
A Seattle-based gun prohibition lobbying group has sent an email blast to supporters, lamenting that “Some sheriffs around Washington State” are refusing to enforce provisions of gun control Initiative 1639, the billionaire-backed measure passed by about 60 percent of voters last November, but already being challenged in U.S. District Court on constitutional grounds. “This is […]
Brutal Knife Attack Leaves Seattle Anti-Gunners in Quandary
A brutal broad daylight triple-stabbing on a downtown Seattle street Tuesday leaves anti-gun city leaders and Washington state’s billionaire-backed—and Seattle-based—gun prohibition lobbying group in a quandary. They can’t call it “gun violence.” They can’t blame the National Rifle Association, or use it in one of their weekly fund-raising email blasts. They certainly can’t exploit it […]
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