Washington State Bump Stock Ban Passes Committee

By Tom Knighton

There are a lot of really good people in Washington state. It’s beautiful country, too; the kind of place I always dreamed of relocating to someday. Of course, that was before I came to understand just how much the rural parts of the state are dominated by the liberal coast. Now, that liberal coast is one step closer to removing a piece of the state residents’ constitutional rights.

Washington would ban certain trigger devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly under a bill approved by a Senate panel Tuesday.

On a party-line vote, the Law and Justice Committee approved Senate Bill 5992 after rejecting a Republican bid to allow them to be sold if the purchaser passes a federal firearms background check.

The devices, known as bump stocks or bump-fire stocks, were used in the Las Vegas mass shooting to increase the firing rate of some rifles used by shooter Stephen Paddock. At a hearing Monday, survivors and family members of victims of that mass shooting described the rain of bullets.

Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley, said the Las Vegas shooting was “horrific” but preventing future events might be better addressed through improved mental health programs. The devices were …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms