Gun-safety advocates won that year with Initiative 594 – kicking off what has been nearly a decade of expanding firearms regulations in Washington.
Now, as high-profile shootings around the nation remain constantly in the news, legislators will return to Olympia in January to consider new proposals. The docket includes the most ambitious one to date: a ban on the sale or transfer of most semiautomatic rifles.
It’s a key agenda item for the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, the advocacy group that championed the successful 2014 initiative and two more firearms ballot measures in the years after.
But the proposal has stalled for many years in Olympia. This year, Gov.
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