Washington scores poorly on gun control

and I'm working for a poorer score next year.

I don't think they are establishing a trend here, it's just a blip on the radar screen. These types of crimes are impossible to stop anyway unless someone has prior knowledge and reports it to the cops.

Cough

"...mandatory theft reporting of all firearms, a limit of one handgun purchase per month, and background checks on all firearms (including gun shows)" -- not one would have been relevant to the crime they're using as an example of why stricter firearms regulation is needed.

how can that be?

We could do much better...here's hoping that we can lose 15 points on their scale and get a perfect score!

Didn't think so. At least five of the important ones like dealers keeping records, ban on felon possession, allow law enforcement inspections of those records, have been federal law since 1938. A couple others have been added since then. Not that the IRS did a great job of inspecting those records until ATF was created, but that is a different conversation. The problem was that gun law enforcement section was where the IRS sent their dead weight, control freaks, and dim wits to be out of the way. When ATF was formed, that was the initial cadre and management of ATF. It is now their corporate culture even after leaving Treasury. They like to claim that their heritage goes back to the Prohibition Bureau. Since Elliot Ness and Al Copone's brother were among the few that were not on the take, not something I would be proud of.