I was announced Tuesday evening March 12, 2013 that despite intense caucusing and negotiating among state Representatives until after 8:00 PM in Olympia, WA, Washington State HB 1588, the firearm sales background checks bill, has been defeated in the legislature's House of Representatives. This is a great win for constitutional firearms rights and law abiding gun owners all over the great state of Washington!
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| Washington State Legislature, Olympia, WA |
Thanks to everyone who sent emails to legislators and who got on the telephone to talk to the legislators' legislative assistants. I spent time conversing with legislative assistants in the afternoon before the caucusing began. Many of the legislative assistants I spoke with were very interested and even seemed to be taking notes as I described the bill's problems to them. It appears that the efforts of thousands of people doing the same thing have paid off. Our well reasoned explanations and arguments appear to have helped win the day for Washington State law abiding gun owners.
Next we'll have to refocus on the U.S. Congress with the same kind of email and telephone campaign that helped to defeat HB 1588. The U.S. Congress looks to be a much more difficult obstacle course, even if Dianne Feinstein's gun ban bill isn't going any where. There are numerous other bills under consideration there, and the people behind them, like Senator Chuck Schumer, throw a lot of weight around in Washington, D.C., where the political forces are far more outsized than in the state legislature. It seems like defending civilian firearm rights here in America is going to be one of the highest focus political issues of the next few years.
Firearm rights supporters all over the country must continue working the issues with elected officials though, because a failure to stop the gun ban and gun restriction bill under consideration in the U.S. Congress could have catastrophic consequences for law abiding gun owners all over the country.
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