The Washington State Supreme Court overturned a Thurston County judge's ruling that gun control measure I-1639 was ineligible for the November ballot. (MyNorthwest)
Soon after the Washington State Supreme Court overturned an earlier decision that removed I-1639 from the November ballot, opponents began mobilizing for an appeal to get it back.
“I’d like to say it came as a horrible shock,” Dave Workman of the Second Amendment Foundation[1] told The Jason Rantz Show[2]. “But it really didn’t. We’ve got an activist Liberal state Supreme Court.”
I-1639 aims to raise the age to purchase semi-automatic assault weapons to 21, create enhanced background checks for purchasing those weapons, and includes additional safe storage rules. The lawsuit brought by the Second Amendment Foundation argued that signature gatherers broke state initiative rules, which should invalidate it.
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Beyond the breaking of rules though, Workman is disturbed by the gun control precedents the law would set.
“It takes away a right from young adults — people of maturity, people who can vote, people who can join the military and defend the country — and yet they’re not considered mature enough to buy a semi-automatic rifle, which could be anything from a Ruger 10/22 to an AR-15 modern sporting rifle.”
Workman also sees issues with the $25 fees for the registrations, which he says amounts to a tax on a civil right, as well as the “unenforceable” safe storage mandate.
“I presume there is going to be a challenge in court,” he said. “Right now, the activists are just trying to fire up the grassroots to beat it in November. That’s
