Anyone hear about this?
This is for Washington State and want to setup rules similar to what we have with handguns but they want to expand to all guns. The ammo thing is ridiculous.
I think this is going nowhere, fast!
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The entirety of Washington state, most of which is rural and gorgeous, has been dragged down by the liberal cesspools of Seattle, Spokane, and a couple of other population centers. The state leads the nation in fentanyl deaths, legacy of their brilliant experiment a few years ago with decriminalizing or outright legalizing ALL drugs of abuse. That eventually got dialed back, but the damage had been done and overdose deaths, homelessness, and crime continue to plague the urban areas.
We now live just 10 miles from the Washington border (and only 40 from Montana…the Idaho panhandle is pretty narrow). The contrast couldn’t be greater.
Washington has the highest liquor tax in the country (20.5%), by a wide margin. It has the third-highest gas tax; cross the state line and gas is about $1.10 a gallon higher than in Idaho. Statewide sales tax is 6.5%, but cities can add up to 10% on top of that, so most cities have a different tax rate. Seattle’s is 10.35%, which may be the highest in the nation. Spokane, just across the border from us, is 9%. North Idaho gets a lot of traffic from Washington residents buying gas, booze, and everything else.
Effective Jan 1, Washington will have the highest minimum wage in the nation–$16.66/hr. That may be fine in Seattle, but in the many sleepy rural towns, it is going to crush the sleepy little small businesses. Many of which are proactively going out of business before Jan 1.
Meanwhile, in Idaho we’ve got cheap gas, cheap liquor, low property taxes, very low crime rates, amazingly good infrastructure, very low unemployment, very low homelessness, and you could probably write all of the gun laws on a postcard.
Livin’ the dream in a deep red state!
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won’t pass, ammo is protected by 2 SC cases
canons too:)
Very sad to witness what has happened in the separate country of Washington State, my home state. Especially Seattle, which used to be a great small city. I visited in 2019-took the ferry over from Bremerton-and was shocked to see all the homeless encampments right there in Pike place. And I was advised not to even go into pioneer square, which used to have a lot of great clubs when I was in my twenties.
I have heard that City council has started to try and turn things around, but it’s going to be very difficult and the vote is still very far to the left.
“Progressive” social policy is utterly destructive. It started by destroying the family, and entire communities followed. Inner city democrat politicians do nothing but enrich themselves at the expense of their constituents, but they keep right on voting them in. Then they insist that it’s not that their policies are bad, but that we are not spedning enough money to fix problems.
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