Background: In January of 2019, Washington State (WA) passed Initiative 1639 making it illegal for persons <21 years-old to buy assault weapons (AWs). This study aimed to evaluate the effects of WA-1639 on firearm-related incidents involving AWs by those <21 years-old...
Democratic Governor Jay Inslee, backed by Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, signed a sweeping gun package into law that includes a ban on so-called assault weapons. Quite simply, lawmakers are running amok with zero regard for the Constitution or ruling from the Supreme Court. This ...
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This initiative made the deadly weapon enhancement applicable to nearly every felony defined by Washington law, and also lengthened the mandatory sentence enhancements. Laws of 1995, ch. 129. The leading Supreme Court authority on what it means to be "armed" under the deadly weapon enhancement ...
The word “genocide” carries a particular stigma under international law, which defines it as the injuring or forcible removal of people with “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” The nation’s leading Armenian-American group said Biden’...
However, the groups asked the court to block the entire law pending a determination of whether those provisions can be separated from the parts they are seeking to block: those related to sales to those under 21 and to out-of-state residents. The state has asked the judge to dismiss the...
“Is it not reasonable that we would have an assault weapons ban, understanding that assault weapons were literally designed to kill a lot of human beings quickly and are weapons of war with no place on the streets of a civil society?” Mayors Talk Gun Violence Statistics compiled by the ...
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Under law, the government would have to offer “just compensation” to shareholders of the handgun businesses, but the cost would be quite modest. In many instances, it would not even be necessary to purchase the entire companies—only the handgun assets. These manufacturers could continue to...
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