Governor Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that they will continue Washington’s incremental assaults on your rights by asking the Legislature to pass more gun control in 2023.
While text of the proposed legislative package is not yet available, they stated that they want to (1) ban commonly-owned firearms, (2) require a permit to exercise the Second Amendment right to purchase or acquire firearms, and (3) allow lawsuits to bankrupt law-abiding firearm manufacturers when criminals misuse their products.
Inslee explained that Connecticut had a 40% drop in homicide when permit to purchase laws were enacted in 1995. Inslee failed to mention that the rest of the country had a parallel drop in homicide at the same time, despite no such law. [Macrotrends]
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"The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men." - Washington State Constitution’s Article 1, Section 24.
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