Knife Rights: Washington “Spring Blade” Knife Ban Repeal Dies in House Again

By Doug Ritter

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Despite two years of hard work by all involved and numerous trips to Olympia by Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs Todd Rathner, including a last-minute “fire drill” this week to manage proposed floor amendments to the bill, the Washington State House of Representatives again failed to vote on SB 5782, the “Spring Blade” (Switchblade) Knife Ban Repeal bill, before the March 6 cutoff for bills originating in the Senate.

Unfortunately, this means that we will have to start the process all over again in the next legislative session in 2021.

However, Knife Rights has earned its bones through our tenacity and we don’t let setbacks, even extremely frustrating ones like this, deter us from our mission. Our success passing 31 bills repealing knife bans in 22 states and over 100 cities and towns has taught us that persistence is key and we will be back to get this done.

Thanks to the hundreds of Washingtonians who used Knife Rights’ Legislative Action Center to email legislators. It had a huge impact in getting us as far as we did.

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