Washington state’s new voter-approved gun-control measure violates citizens’ Second Amendment right to bear arms, gun-rights advocates including the National Rifle Association asserted in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
The law known as Initiative 1639 was approved by 60 percent of voters in last week’s election. It calls for buyers of semi-automatic rifles to be age 21 or older, pass an enhanced background check and show proof of having taken a firearms training course, Q13 FOX of Seattle reported.
But those objecting to the new law include the NRA and the Bellevue, Wash.-based Second Amendment Foundation, who filed their lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
“We are disappointed that too many voters were fooled into supporting this 30-page gun control scheme, despite overwhelming law enforcement opposition,” Second Amendment Foundation Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb said in a statement. “This measure will have a chilling effect on the exercise of the constitutional rights of honest citizens while having no impact on criminals, and we will not let it go unchallenged.”
Among the plaintiffs are a member of the U.S. Army Reserve and a competitive-sport shooter, both under age 21, the Seattle Times reported.
The lawsuit also argues that aspects of the new law appear to require regulation of interstate commerce – which falls under the purview of the federal government, not the state.
The gun-rights advocates tried earlier this year to keep the proposal off the ballot, the Times reported.
Tallman Trask, a spokesman for the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, told the Times that the lawsuit amounted to a “Hail Mary” last-ditch effort by supporters of the Second Amendment.
“We always expected the NRA or the gun lobby in general, to sue and try to stop I-1639,” Trask told the Times, because they “can’t stop it at the ballot box.”
In an email, Tara Lee, a spokeswoman for
The office of Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee was still reviewing the lawsuit, spokeswoman Tara Lee told Q13 FOX.
“We intend to defend the will of the voters in this state,” she wrote.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gun-rights-advocates-sue-to-block-new-gun-control-law-in-washington-state
Defend the voters? With what? Harsh words and a baseball bat?
Besides.
Nobody can vote to infringe rights.Especially when only 25% of people voted. Thats the dumbest, most mentally enslaved part. Then 60% of them are even dumber.
By my crude math thats about 15% of the states populous. Hardly enough to even listen to much less count as a legitimate force worthy of infringing on unalienable rights.
What a jokd. Washington is the new cuntafornia.
I wonder how many were bus in for the vote
“…pass an enhanced background check and show proof of having taken a firearms training course”
More feel good gun legislation that exclusively benefits liberals emotions and tyrants.
Those requirements are certain to prevent bad people from following the “law” and then go out and shoot up up a place
When you get tired of sueing an losing go an kick there asses out of your building we all own