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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Believe It or Not: A Liberal Judge Opposes Gun Control - Ammoland.com

 When the Washington state Supreme Court upheld the state’s prohibition on magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds, no one was particularly surprised.

Washington has been on a gun control binge since 2014, but the legislature went into overdrive after voters approved Initiative 1639 in 2018.

First, how well have all these new gun control laws worked?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington’s overall homicide rate has soared 77% since 2014, including a 45% jump from 2018 to 2023. When guns are involved, the rate rose 139% since 2014 and 77% since 2018.

Not only did the homicide rate jump after Washington became addicted to gun control, but the percentage of homicides committed with firearms rose 22% from 2018 to 2023.

So, more homicides and more homicides committed with guns. Washington’s gun control laws have worked about as well as they ever do: Not at all.

However, that doesn’t mean the state’s highest court can’t uphold them, as we saw in Washington State v. Gator’s Custom Guns.

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IRS Should Probe Brady Group’s Failed “Bribery” Attempt of Former NRA Pres. Marion Hammer - Ammoland.com

 BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling for an IRS investigation into a startling allegation made by former NRA President and Second Amendment champion Marion Hammer in a federal lawsuit in which she says an attorney representing the Brady gun control group allegedly offered her $5 million to “retire and cease advancing the interests of the NRA and defending the Second Amendment.”

The allegation says the offer was made in 2018. According to the language in the lawsuit, Hammer immediately reported the offer to then-Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.

“This is not the kind of offer a tax exempt organization should be making under any circumstances,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “First and foremost, nobody’s First Amendment rights should ever be for sale, and secondly, the nature of this allegation almost appears as though the gun control group was offering Mrs. Hammer a bribe to walk away from an issue to which she had dedicated most of her adult life.”

Hammer’s legal action involves an apparent contract dispute between her and the NRA.

“We have absolutely no interest in, nor are we taking any position on, Mrs. Hammer’s lawsuit,” Gottlieb stated. “Our sole interest is in this apparent attempt by a wealthy gun prohibition lobbying organization to essentially silence one of the nation’s most respected and effective voices in support of Second Amendment rights.

“I am sure,” he observed, “that when the Brady Center applied for tax exempt status, this is not an activity they listed on their application, as I doubt it would qualify as a tax exempt function.

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