Initiative 1639, a far reaching gun control measure, is back on November's ballot after the Washington Supreme Court overturned a lower court's ruling Friday afternoon.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a typo on the petitions circulated by I-1639's signature gatherers did not constitute a serious enough violation to knock the initiative off November's ballot. The Supreme Court decided that the lower court had acted beyond the scope of state law when it had previously blocked the initiative from running on November's ballot.

"The purpose of this statute is narrow; it does not allow for preelection judicial review of the form, process, substance, or constitutionality of an initiative petition," wrote the Supreme Court Friday.

Friday's ruling comes a week after a lower court disqualified the initiative, ruled that the pamphlets carried by signature gatherers were in violation of state law, which requires that signature gatherers carry a “readable, full, true, and correct” text of the law the initiative seeks to change.

"Frankly this court does not struggle with this issue," said Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon. "When I read the initiative and I read the petition as it was included on the reverse side of the petitions and then I read the law it became apparent to me that the petitions do not comport with [state law]."

Well you should have struggled a bit over your decision Jim because the gun control initiative is back on the ballot, baby!!!

The justices wrote in Friday's ruling that there was "no legislative mandate that the secretary must decline to certify" a ballot measure "based on failure to comply with the requirement that 'a readable, full, true, and correct copy' of the initiative appear on the back of every petition, or on legibility or formatting concerns."

I-1639 would tighten gun control measures in a variety of ways, including:
• Expand background check requirements for purchasing semiautomatic assault rifles.
• Institute a $25 firearm purchasing fee, which would fund costs associated with the additional background checks and fund mental health institutions.
• Create a 10-day waiting period for purchasing semiautomatic assault rifles.
• Increase the penalties for improperly storing firearms.
• Raise the minimum age to purchase a pistol or semiautomatic rifle to 21.

The Alliance on Gun Responsibility gathered almost 380,000 signatures for the ballot measures, well over the 260,000 signatures required to qualify for the ballot.