Jan 25, 2023
State preemption is on the line in Washington state, where anti-gun Democrats have inadvertently revealed their hypocrisy on the subject of state versus local gun control laws. U.S.A. --(AmmoLand.com)- The battle over gun rights versus gun control in Washington State is heating up, and this Friday, Jan. 27, the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary will be holding an executive session to discuss at least four piece of legislation which-whatever else they do-illustrate the stunning hypocrisy of anti-gun Democrats. (Full disclosure, this correspondent testified before the committee on Jan. 17 in opposition to House Bill 1178, a measure to repeal Washington's 40-year-old state preemption law.) The bill's Democrat sponsors want to roll the calendar back to a time when the state had a checkerboard of differing local gun control ordinances. They changed from one jurisdiction to another, usually confusing and often conflicting. In 1983 and again in 1985, lawmakers of a different