8-27-2018
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington’s Supreme Court cleared the way for a gun-control initiative to appear on the November ballot.
The court late Friday afternoon reversed a judge’s decision from earlier this month that threw out more than 300,000 signatures used to qualify Initiative 1639, saying the petition format did not follow election law.
But the Supreme Court ruling says the Secretary of State is not required to block a measure based on the readability and formatting of the proposed measure’s text.
The initiative would raise the age for the purchase of a semi-automatic rifle to twenty-one, expand background checks, require firearm safety courses and create standards for safely storing firearms.