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WA: Bill Banning High-Capacity Magazines Draws Fire From Washington State gun Owners
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As guns fly off store shelves around the U.S., Washington state lawmakers are setting their sights on banning high-capacity magazines.
The Brookings Institution estimates some three million more guns were sold than normal between March and June, bringing national gun sales to an all-time high as mass protests against police brutality began around the country.
KUOW reports that in Seattle alone, some 9,426 background checks for gun purchases were processed or 55% over the city's annual average.
Sponsored by Washington Sen. Marko Liias, D-Lynnwood, Senate Bill 5078 builds on efforts in the state legislature to slap stricter limits on ammunition sales. Gun control advocates say they could save lives in a mass shooting. |
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PHORTO
(1/28/2021)
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The law per precedent in the U.S. 9th Circuit of Appeals decision is that magazine capacity limits are unconstitutional.
Washington is subject to that ruling, yet it is carrying on as if the ruling doesn't exist. |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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