Or is it any gun hysteria?
Initiative 1639 would classify any semi-automatic rifle as an assault weapon.
Under the definitions section paragraph (25) states “Semiautomatic assault rifle” means any rifle “which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge.”
So your Ruger 10/22 or Glenfield 22 with the tube magazine or that Remington 7400 hunting rifle with a 3 round magazine capacity and hundreds more would be classified as “assault rifles.”
As such you must pay additional fees, take state-mandated safety classes, have your medical records open to scrutiny and register them with the state just to buy them.
Forget about giving one to your kid if they are younger than 21.
Just because there are those who dislike those scary-looking black rifles, don’t let every semi-auto rifle made since the early 1900s be lumped into the “Black-Rifle Hysteria.” Washington state has universal background checks (I-594) and extreme risk protection orders (I-1491).
I-1639 would take Second Amendment rights away from those 18 to 20.
Considering that these people are the prime demographic that will be defending our nation if needed, it seems very hypocritical to take Second Amendment rights away from those whom we depend on to protect those very same rights for the rest of us.
Vote No on I-1639.
Joe Swordmaker,
Port Angeles