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 […]
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 […]
In CCW Reciprocity Fight, Is ‘Perfect’ the Enemy of the ‘Good?’
Sometime Wednesday the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on legislation that has combined national concealed carry reciprocity with legislation to improve the ailing National Instant Check System (NICS), and some gun rights activists apparently have a problem with this. There are some objections to having the two bills combined, by both proponents and […]
WaPo ‘Fact Checker’ Gives Anti-Gun Senator ‘3 Pinocchios’
When anti-gun Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, claimed during a CNN “State of the Union” appearance that states with tougher gun laws “have dramatically lower rates of gun violence,” he was perpetuating a myth that has been circulated by the gun prohibition lobby, and he got called on it by the Washington Post Fact […]
Homicides Up in 2016, Rifles Still Account for Fraction of Crime
New FBI crime data for 2016 shows once again that rifles of any kind, such as this bolt-action model, are used in a fraction of homicides nationwide. (Dave Workman) For the second straight year, violent crime has risen in the U.S., according to newly-released data from the FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2016, but the […]
Seattle Council Candidate Grant Wants to Double ‘Gun Violence Tax’
One of the candidates running to fill the Seattle City Council seat being vacated by Tim Burgess, who pushed through the city’s “gun violence tax,” is proposing to double that tax to raise revenue not realized during the first year it was assessed, a move predicted by Washington state’s leading gun rights advocate. Council candidate […]
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