Washington states I-594 has massive money pouring into it because its apparently the only gun-control measure on the ballot this fall anywhere across the country. There are actually two dueling gun measures in the state. The first one I-594 the Washington Universal Background Checks for Gun Purchases Initiative is being bankrolled by billionaires on the left in favor of gun control including anti-gun activist and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as former wealthy Microsoft execs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Thanks to them the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility has raised nearly $9 million for the initiative this far massively outspending the other side which has raised only $1.3 million.
I-594 has been cleverly drafted to sound like it merely makes small changes to gun laws not a flat-out ban or gun registration scheme. This is why it is so dangerous. People are less likely to oppose it; in fact polls show that even a majority of gun owners - 54 percent of the 35 percent of Washington residents who own a gun - are in favor of it.
The reality is the bizarrely-long 18.5 page initiative is so confusingly and vaguely worded - with many terms and phrases left undefined - that former Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders warned protesters at a rally against I-594 how impossible it will be to comply with. Gun owners will easily make honest mistakes making it easy to prosecute them. Many will just give up trying to own a gun.
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Washington states I-594 has massive money pouring into it because its apparently the only gun-control measure on the ballot this fall anywhere across the country. There are actually two dueling gun measures in the state. The first one I-594 the Washington Universal Background Checks for Gun Purchases Initiative is being bankrolled by billionaires on the left in favor of gun control including anti-gun activist and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as former wealthy Microsoft execs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Thanks to them the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility has raised nearly $9 million for the initiative this far massively outspending the other side which has raised only $1.3 million.
I-594 has been cleverly drafted to sound like it merely makes small changes to gun laws not a flat-out ban or gun registration scheme. This is why it is so dangerous. People are less likely to oppose it; in fact polls show that even a majority of gun owners - 54 percent of the 35 percent of Washington residents who own a gun - are in favor of it.
The reality is the bizarrely-long 18.5 page initiative is so confusingly and vaguely worded - with many terms and phrases left undefined - that former Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders warned protesters at a rally against I-594 how impossible it will be to comply with. Gun owners will easily make honest mistakes making it easy to prosecute them. Many will just give up trying to own a gun.
Read the rest of the article at Townhall