{"id":3050,"date":"2024-03-28T23:11:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2024-03-28T23:11:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:11:43","slug":"virginia-and-washington-a-tale-of-two-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3050","title":{"rendered":"Virginia And Washington: A Tale Of Two Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Washington Gov. Jay Inslee  (AP Photo\/Ted S. Warren)\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21230800243055-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Washington Gov. Jay Inslee\" title=\"Washington Gov. Jay Inslee\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (AP Photo\/Ted S. Warren)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the same week that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/the-thin-red-line-virginia-gov-youngkin-vetoes-onslaught-of-anti-gun-bills\/\">vetoed 30 measures<\/a> that would have greatly curtailed the rights of lawful Virginians, all the way across the country a much different scenario was unfolding.<\/p>\n<p>On March 27, Democrat Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a handful of anti-gun measures that will only hurt lawful citizens and not affect violent criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the worst measure, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=2118&amp;Initiative=false&amp;Year=2023\">HB 2118<\/a>, places a number of expensive, punitive requirements on Washington firearms retailers and will likely run many of them out of business. Under the new law, any FFL that does more than $1,000 of sales per year must run annual background checks on their employees, carry $1 million liability insurance, install steel doors or bars at the business and meet onerous requirements for storage and security systems with 24-hour audio and video surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another newly signed law, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=5444&amp;Year=2023&amp;Initiative=False\">SB 5444<\/a>, expands the so-called \u201csensitive places\u201d where lawful citizens can no longer open carry. The new places include public transportation areas, libraries, zoos and aquariums.<\/p>\n<p>Other bills that were signed by Gov. Inslee were <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=1903&amp;Initiative=false&amp;Year=2023\">HB 1903<\/a>, which further victimizes gun owners for theft of their own property if they don\u2019t report the theft of a firearm within 24 hours; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=2021&amp;Initiative=false&amp;Year=2023\">HB 2021<\/a>, which expands the authorized and\/or required destruction of firearms acquired from gun buyback programs held by state and local government entities; and <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=5985&amp;Year=2023&amp;Initiative=False\">SB 5985<\/a>, which codifies the unconstitutional provisions of Washington\u2019s recent ban on commonly owned firearms into the section of state code on background checks.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the governor\u2019s signing of the bills brought mixed responses, depending on the respondent\u2019s political motivations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese bills will make Washington families safer,\u201d said Kate Stockert, a volunteer with the Washington chapter of Moms Demand Action. \u201cAcross his three terms, Gov. Jay Inslee has honored his word of protecting Washingtonians from gun violence. Under his leadership, our state has become a national leader in gun safety, and by signing these bills into law today he cements his legacy as one of the strongest governors against gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Sen. Keith Wagoner, a member of the Senate Law and Justice Committee, had a different viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, the Democrats pass firearm legislation that only hurts people that are already obeying the law,\u201d Wagoner said.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president of the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation, has said his organization is already working with its attorneys on a potential lawsuit to challenge the new laws.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/virginia-and-washington-a-tale-of-two-governors\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (AP Photo\/Ted S. Warren) Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 In the same week that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed 30 measures that would have greatly curtailed the rights of lawful Virginians, all the way across the country a much different scenario was unfolding. On March 27, Democrat Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}