Reinforcing the belief among Evergreen State gun owners, the billionaire-backed Alliance for Gun Responsibility—the Seattle-based gun control advocacy group—has released its 2023 legislative agenda and it is quite a wish list, including another effort to repeal the state’s long-standing and court-enforced firearms preemption law. The Alliance wants to ban semiautomatic rifles—erroneously described as “semi-automatic assault […]
WA Legislature Eyeballs Bills to Ban ‘Assault Weapons’
Almost as predicted by opponents of anti-gun Initiative 1639, the measure that among other things invented a definition for a “semiautomatic assault rifle,” anti-gun Democrats in the Washington Legislature have introduced legislation to ban so-called “assault weapons.” I-1639 defined “semi-auto assault rifles” as literally any self-loading rifle, regardless of caliber (including rimfires) that has ever […]
Seattle Times Editorial Signals Need for Anti-gun Bias Watch
A Seattle Times editorial that reveals both news staff and editorial board wishes to see so-called “assault weapons” banned this year reveals a possible anti-gun bias. (Dave Workman) A weekend editorial in the Seattle Times has signaled, albeit unintentionally, the need for Evergreen State Second Amendment activists to be alert for bias as the New […]
