It didn’t take long for the war of words and emotions to erupt as paid signature gatherers began in earnest to collect voter signatures for Initiative 1639, the latest gun control scheme offered by the billionaire-backed Alliance for Gun Responsibility, the Seattle-based lobbying group. Under I-1639, according to critics, all semi-automatic rifles, regardless of type […]
WA Activists Prepping for Rally to Oppose Anti-gun Legislation
Washington State gun rights activists are hitting the ground running as the 2018 legislative session looms, with a pro-rights rally scheduled Friday, Jan. 12, and they’ve even got a draft letter to circulate among lawmakers in Olympia. This comes as the state Department of Licensing data shows that more than 19,270 new concealed pistol licenses […]
Washington AG Reiterates Gun Control Agenda
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has revealed plans to revive his gun control agenda for the 2018 legislative session, and he is once again declaring his push to ban so-called “assault rifles” a matter of “public safety,” according to the Aberdeen Daily World. But the FBI Uniform Crime Reports over the past several years […]
Watch Gun Prohibitionists Zero in On ‘Bump Stocks’ For Ban
The “Bump Fire” in action on a semi-auto rifle. (Screen capture, YouTube, Lisa Jean) With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi jumping quickly into the post-Las Vegas blood fest to exploit Sunday’s mass shooting to push a political agenda, it should not take long for the gun prohibition lobby to push for a ban on so-called […]
Two Words Democrats Can’t Put Together in Debates
Monday night’s presidential debate and Washington State’s gubernatorial debate underscored a serious problem that Democrats cannot seem to overcome. They can’t put the words “gun” and “control” together in the same sentence. Instead, it’s “gun safety.” Both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gov. Jay Inslee used that term, created by the gun prohibition lobby to mask […]
This Opinion Poll Spells Trouble for Gun Ban Proposal
It’s not just FBI Uniform Crime Report data that goes against the narrative launched earlier this week by Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson in his push for a ban on so-called “assault weapons,” public reaction is decidedly negative. An unscientific poll on KOMO’s Facebook Page underscores Ferguson’s problem. The KOMO opinion poll showed a […]
