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- IN WASHINGTON STATE, criminals can avoid background checks by purchasing their weapons at gun shows.
Initiative 591 is put forward by gun nuts and aims to preempt Initiative 594, which we’ve endorsed. It tries to do this by outlawing any expansion of background checks on gun sales in Washington State—in other words, by keeping the loopholes in current regulations wide open. The initiative’s main backers are a handful of private arms dealers who refused to debate the merits of their proposal before the SECB, and so the question is: Do we want to trust a bunch of cowardly arms dealers to write our state’s gun regulations? The answer’s obvious. Vote no on I-591.
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