With just over one month remaining before the November election, Washington gun rights groups are united against Initiative 1639, the 30-page gun control measure that has ignited a grassroots opposition movement that continues gaining momentum. They are underfunded, but they are energized, reminding everyone within earshot that “dollars don’t vote, people do.” The Citizens Committee […]
The ‘Cut-And-Paste’ Problem with Initiative 1639
When the authors of Initiative 1639—the 30-page, multi-faceted gun control measure now facing Washington voters on the November ballot—defined a “semiautomatic assault rifle,” they created a split among firearms owners, leaving some to believe the authors to be “gun ignorant” or just incompetent, while others think they are trying to ensnare every self-loading rifle in […]
Gun Prohibition Lobby ‘Spending Millions’ in Midterm Elections
The Washington Post is reporting that anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety “plans to spend $8 million to $10 million in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and New Mexico” to influence the midterm elections, via its “Action Fund.” That is not the full extent of expenditures by the gun prohibition group’s fund, either. […]
WA Battleground: Attacks on Gun Owners Disguised as ‘Safety’
While the battle over gun rights is intensifying statewide in Washington, Seattle gun owners are being targeted for regulatory harassment with the city’s new “safe storage” requirements, and the Edmonds City Council has predictably accepted free legal representation in its own gun control effort, according to grassroots activists who argue that none of the new […]
Has Washington’s Governor Taken Anti-Gun Pettiness to New Low?
With a sweeping anti-gun-rights initiative vote looming in Washington, that state’s liberal Democrat governor may have just added more momentum to the grassroots campaign to defeat the gun control measure by deciding he would no longer sign certificates for the winners in a police marksmanship competition because the program involves the National Rifle Association. […]
Gun Shop Owners Have Rights, Too, Federal Court Reminds
In a small but significant smackdown of a California gun control law gone too far, a federal court judge this week struck down a section of the state penal code that prohibits handgun advertising at gun stores that would be visible from outside the store. It was a victory for the plaintiffs and the groups […]
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