I-1639 would establish waiting periods and new background checks on these guns. Getty
Will some careless campaign work and a few missing strikethroughs stop Washingtonians from voting on one of the most comprehensive gun reform measures in the country?
It’s up to the Washington State Supreme Court to decide after a Thurston County judge threw out Initiative 1639 on Friday[1] over a technicality. The case is now going to Washington’s highest court, which will hopefully rule on the case before ballots have to be printed early next month.
Nearly 380,000 people signed I-1639, over 100,000 more than required, and the Secretary of State certified the initiative, so why did Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon throw out the far-reaching gun control measure? Dixon threw out the measure because of a paltry technicality: the initiative's fine print was missing a few