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Posted on 08/24/2018 8:34:47 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Washington's Supreme Court has cleared the way for a gun-control initiative to appear on the November ballot.
The court late Friday afternoon reversed a judge's decision earlier this month that threw out more than 300,000 signatures used to qualify Initiative 1639, saying the petition format did not follow election law.
Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon had said the signature petitions did not clearly identify what would change in the law and the font was too small to be readable. He ordered the secretary of state to stop certification of the measure. But the Supreme Court ruling, written by Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst, said the secretary of state is not required to block a measure based on the readability and formatting of the proposed measure's text.
The justices said "there is no legislative mandate that the secretary must decline to certify and present to voters an initiative based on failure to comply with the requirement that a 'readable, full, true, and correct copy' of the initiative appear on the back of every petition."
The initiative would raise the age for the purchase of a semi-automatic rifle to 21. It would also expand the background checks for the purchase of these rifles. The measure would require people to complete a firearm safety training course and create standards for safely storing firearms.
In July, the campaign for I-1639 turned in the final batch of more than 360,000 petition signatures collected to the secretary of state's office. They had needed about 260,000 to be certified.
Critics had said the main problem with the petitions was that they didn't contain underlines to show what would be added to the law, or "strike-through" lines to show the parts of the law that would be removed. The National Rifle Association and Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation had filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Kim Wyman to get the initiative off the ballot, arguing the people who signed the petitions didn't know what it would do.
In a statement, Wyman thanked the Supreme Court for ruling promptly on the dispute.
"This clears the way for our preparations to put I-1639 before voters in time for ballots to be printed," Wyman said. "My priority is protecting Washington citizens' right to make informed use of our state constitution's initiative process."
The Alliance for Gun Responsibility, the group behind the initiative, describes it as a comprehensive gun violence prevention measure that addresses a number of issues.
The campaign for I-1639 has raised $3 million, with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen contributing $1.2 million.
More Leftists seeking to abrogate and ultimately destroy the US Constitution.
Don’t forget that people like Marxist Soros is funding programs to get leftist Secretaries of State elected in every state in the U.S., and is having some success.
Just look at New York, Minnesota (Communist Party friend Mark Ritchie), Hawaii, California, etc.
The judicial and political rot is deep across America and short of a new American Revolution, it will be almost impossible to get these anti-Constitution maggots out of power.
Paul Allen is trying to influence an election. Ive heard that is illegal and stuff.
Right; because gun control has prevented so many crimes. Name one.
I bet it would be far easier to find the crimes it helped to allow to happen.
No , I mean legally not what some insurgent junta in washington state would do to violate the constitution. Insurgent juntas are terrorists and need to be treated as such.
I qualified Expert with the M-16 at the ripe old age of 17.
We worked on one of his “yachts” one time. We were not allowed on the vessel and had to sign NDAs. From my observation he is a fanatic about security. Look up interior pictures of the yacht Octopus. You won’t find any. He doesn’t allow it. The point is, you are right that he probably doesn’t go anywhere without armed security.
Yup. Liberals pontificate loudly about the need for “common sense” gun control, but get enraged if someone mentions “common sense” abortion control.
Liberals and the left are totalitarians; they want to disarm the American people so that they can assert their will upon them without fear of it backfiring on them. They are so predictable.
“Do those legalese morons realize that they just said ‘Ok, In Washington anything goes.’”
Well, that’s true. Before I retired I handled several cases in the state of Washington, and, believe me, the application of the law there is first and foremost results-oriented, the law be damned.
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10 U.S. Code § 246 - Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age
You forgot 1877. I believe that is the year the NRA came into existence. Notice the other three years all come long AFTER 1877.
As I see it, the NRA will not be satisfied until the second amendment is once and for all done away, but that will take another one hundred and forty plus years thus insuring their membership’s continued support for that time period.
I am quite sure by that time the Second Coming will have taken place and HE will fight our battles not the chipping away NRA. Yes I am a member but I sure at times wonder why.
Like I said, we haven’t given up our gun rights no matter how many times they try to take them away.
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