Posted March 13, 2020 8:00 pm by Comments

By Dave Workman

Opinion

Washington State Capitol building, Olympia. (Dave Workman)

Washinton – -(AmmoLand.com)- Evergreen State grassroots gun rights activists appear jubilant at the end of that state’s legislative session, and one leader in the fight against new gun control laws declared on social media, “Hot Damn, We Win!”

There were some onerous gun control laws passed, including one that creates a brand new “Office of Firearms Violence Prevention.”

However, the two “signature” measures sought by anti-gun Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson—a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and “high capacity magazines”—were defeated.

“Can you imagine how upset they are right now,” wondered Curtis Bingham in his post to a legislative action group on Facebook.

Rights activists are planning a major rally at the capitol in Olympia on April 18, the same weekend that the National Rifle Association was planning to hold its 149th annual members’ meeting and exhibits in Nashville, but as AmmoLand News reported earlier, that convention has been canceled.

He congratulated the hard work of citizen activists that turned the tide and held the line. The lesson in this is that activism works. Instead of sitting on the couch and complaining, Evergreen State gun owners went to work, and at least …Read the Rest

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