“Nothing in the initiative would prevent a voter initiative that sought to invalidate federal law.”
Nothing I wrote said I591 would “prevent a voter initiative....” What I did say is that I591 would need to be repealed to withdraw its permission for the State of Washington to conduct background checks for the Federal Government, and thereby make one more serious impediment to getting such legislation passed in the Washington State legislature in addition to a nullification of the Federal law infringing upon the Second Amendment.
“...I591 would need to be repealed to withdraw its permission for the State of Washington to conduct background checks for the Federal Government...”
WRONG! Stop lying!
The initiative would stop the state from conducting background checks, unless required by federal law. That doesn’t say that the state MUST follow federal law, that’s absurd, the law says that the state can’t conduct background checks... unless required.
“Prevent unless required to” DOES NOT MEAN “you are required to”. Prevent is the operative clause, the state is prevented from adopting a background check system harsher than federal law.
Those are very different things. So stop lying.