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WA: Gun initiative certified to the November ballot
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The Washington secretary of state's office has certified a ballot measure that seeks to raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21 from 18, require enhanced background checks and require gun owners to secure firearms kept in their homes.
In a press release Friday announcing that Initiative 1639 has qualified for the November ballot, Secretary of State Kim Wyman said she still had concerns about whether the format of the petitions was constitutional. Wyman's office says that state law requires a "readable, full, true, and correct" of the measure to be printed on the reverse side of the petition, but that the text of the I-1639 petition sheets lacked underlining and strikethroughs to explain its changes to existing law. |
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Bill Handel show
los angeles
Bill & wife got sev. handguns & training after the '92 rodney king riots, stating wife is better shot. Then realized he forgot combo to pistol safe, would have to throw at attacker. Then had 2 kids, & decided to remove all guns from house. "That's my story."
(since he's prominent lawyer/personality, i can understand but not sympathize).
Very next call after that story is woman whose daughter is facing the release of dangerous felon boyfriend from prison, who simultaneously threatens her & says loves her. Did 19 yrs on drug charge, then another 5 harassing diff. girlfriend. Bill asks if she called police, she says they won't act on suspicion, Bill 'jokes' she has to be killed first for them to actually respond. |
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