The latest report on active concealed pistol licenses from the Washington State Department of Licensing strongly suggests by year’s end, there will be more than 700,000 legally-armed law abiding citizens licensed to carry, which should give gun owners one more strong reason to resist predicted efforts to repeal the state’s 37-year-old firearms preemption law. Seattle […]
WA Concealed Carry Hits Another High Ahead of Midterms
Yet another record has been broken by Washington State citizens applying for and receiving concealed pistol licenses, bringing the number to 694,904 active CPLs at the end of October. According to data from the state Department of Licensing, October saw more than 6,400 new licenses added to the number. Last month, the number of active […]
PA Preemption Blocking Local Gun Control in Philly, Writer Complains
Writing at the Philadelphia Inquirer, civics reporter Henry Savage laments that “Philadelphia has been unable to pass local gun laws.” “A predicament that has embroiled the city and the state General Assembly into a years-long battle over one thing: state preemption law,” he complains. Second Amendment activists recognize state preemption laws as one of the […]
TX Case Explains What WA Anti-gunners, Media Can’t Figure Out
A pair of reports on gun control laws in Washington State discuss the failure to implement part of a sweeping gun law passed in 2018, and how Evergreen State gun laws compare to other states, yet avoid a critical part of the story, which might be best explained by a deadly crime in Houston, Texas. […]
Grant County, WA Backs Off Claim Mass Shooting was Prevented
UPDATED 8-24 @12:29 p.m. — Authorities in Grant County, Washington have backed away from reports that made national headlines regarding the arrest of armed man at the Gorge Amphitheater, initially suggesting a mass shooting may have been averted. The suspect, identified by the Grant County Sheriff’s Office as Jonathan Moody, 31. He resides in Ephrata, […]
Months After Court Loss, Edmonds Repeals Gun Law; What About Seattle?
Three months after losing unanimously before Washington State’s liberal Supreme Court in its challenge to state gun law preemption, the City of Edmonds has repealed its “safe storage” ordinance, but that still leaves nearby Seattle with a similar regulation on the books, which the high court’s decision effectively nullified. Seattle adopted its ordinance about the […]
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