Posted on 11/28/2014 9:29:44 AM PST by rktman
The National Rifle Association is promising supporters it will carry on the fight against Initiative 594, using its “philosophically supportive majority” in the Washington Legislature when it convenes in January.
“We are already discussing legislative remedies to the most onerous provisions,” the NRA said in a letter to supporters. The Gun Lobby’s big gun defends the effort it made in opposing I-594, which requires criminal background checks for those purchasing firearms at gun shows and over the Internet. It blames billionaires the measure’s landslide passage.
“Please bear in mind that, in our fight to defeat I-594, NRA faced unprecedented spending by a handful of billionaires and wealthy elitists, who gave the anti-gun lobby over $10 million to spend in support of I-594,” the NRA’s letter argues.
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Why can’t this unconstitutional law be challenged in court?
I think the way the initiative/referendum process is set up it’s hard to challenge since the voters approved it. Of course that didn’t seem to matter in CA when their votes were overturned by the courts. Looks like FL has an initiative process only for constitutional amendments.
Judges overturn laws voted on by the people all the time regarding gay marriage. Why would this be different?
Uh, guns are dangerous and gays aren’t? They’re not a threat to public health and guns are? I don’t know. Seems ridiculous to me.
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