For 7th straight year, Democrats aim for assault weapon ban
OLYMPIA — A ban on assault weapons. A permit and longer waiting period to purchase a firearm. A path to holding gun makers and sellers accountable if one of their products harms someone.
These form the fulcrum of an agenda to combat surging gun violence that Gov. Jay Inslee, Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Democratic lawmakers will push in the upcoming 2023 legislative session.
“Too many guns of the wrong kind are ending up in the wrong hands,” Inslee said at a news conference Monday. “We intend in this session of the Legislature to give Washingtonians assertive, effective and protective laws to protect them and their children against this epidemic.”
The effort arrives amid a rise of incidents involving guns in Washington since the start of the pandemic. Each year between 2017 and 2021, an average of 852 people were killed by firearms, rising to 896 in 2021, according to data compiled by Inslee’s staff.
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