8-20-2018
SEATTLE, Wash. — Right-wing demonstrators gathered Saturday in Seattle for a “Liberty or Death” rally that drew counter-protesters from the left while dozens of police kept the two sides separated.
The gun-control initiative the right-wing groups were protesting planned to boost the age for the purchase of semi-automatic rifles from eighteen to twenty-one and would expand the background checks for buying those guns.
It would also require people to complete a firearm safety training course and create standards for safely storing firearms.
But a judge on Friday threw out 300,000 signatures needed to put the initiative on the November ballot, saying the petition’s format did not follow election law.
The group behind the initiative says it will appeal to the state Supreme Court.