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 ...
But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent (of usurpation) must always greatly overb...
This assault on the truth has been, as international lawyer and scholar Richard Falk has said, a “major, proactive, deliberate government effort to use every possible instrument of persuasion at its disposal to keep the truth about the Armenian genocide from general acknowledgment, especially by ...
Alexis: an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and a semiautomatic pistol, a senior law enforcement officer said. It was unclear whether he had brought all the guns with him, another law enforcement official said, or if he had taken one or more of them from his victims....
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Washington’s new law is also notable because thestate has the highest level of household gun ownershipcompared to other states with similar assault weapon bans on the books. (A study by RAND in 2016 found that about 34% of Washington adults lived in a household with a firearm—a figure th...