Gun Stores Selling Out After Washington Legislature Passes Semi-Auto Rifle Ban
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The Washington Legislature passed a semi-automatic rifle ban on Wednesday.
Democrat Governor Jay Inslee is going to sign the ban.
The Washington Times reported:
A ban on dozens of semi-automatic rifles cleared the Washington state Legislature on Wednesday and the governor is expected to sign it into law.
The high-powered firearms – once banned nationwide – are now the weapon of choice among young men responsible for most of the country’s devastating mass shootings.
The ban comes after multiple failed attempts in the Legislature and in a year that has seen the most mass shootings during the first 100 days of a calendar year since 2009.
The law would cover more than 50 gun models, including AR-15s, AK-47s and similar style rifles, which fire one bullet per trigger pull and automatically reload for a subsequent shot. The bill bans their future sale, distribution, manufacture and importation, although some exemptions are included for sales to law enforcement agencies and the military in Washington.
The ban seems to already be backfiring.
Washington Gun Stores are selling out.
One store manager said, “we are running out of almost everything.”
Customers stripped entire sections of wall at Surplus Ammo & Arms bare this week, flocking to the Tacoma gun store for rifles that are about to become illegal in the state of Washington.
“We are running out of almost everything,” store manager Bruce Smith said.
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“They’re going to ban all AR-style guns and anything that attaches to those guns,” Smith said. He estimated sales have doubled in the past month, with customers primarily focusing on rifles like the AR-15, kits and replacement parts. “People are focusing on what they won’t be able to get.”
The bill bans more than 60 specific firearms, most of them semiautomatic long guns. Semiautomatic pistols and shotguns with certain features outlined in the bill may also be banned, but the specific guns are not listed.
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