Washington state on Tuesday became the 10th state to implement a general ban on assault weapons, including the AR-15, which has been used in some of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States.
looking at public mass killings with four or more deaths found that assault rifles accounted for more than 85 percent of fatalities.
Washington is the 10th U.S. state to generally ban assault weapons, joining California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, as well as D.C., according to theAli Rowhani-Rahbar, who leads the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program at the University of Washington, said that the new law considers “broader public safety interests” and is based on evidence-based links between assault weapons and mass shootings.
Opponents of Washington’s legislation say it violates the Second Amendment and mischaracterizes the weapons involved. The state’s Republican Party accused Inslee of “ignoring the root causes of gun violence and infringing on law-abiding citizens’ rights” in aThe bill is already facing at least one legal battle.
challenging the law on Second and Fourteenth Amendment grounds. The group’s vice president, Alan M. Gottlieb, accused the state of criminalizing “a common and important means of self-defense, the modern semiautomatic rifle,” and putting “politics ahead of constitutional rights.”Bob Ferguson, the state’s attorney general, said at the capitol Tuesday that such legal action was expected and that his office has defended gun reform bills against the NRA and Second Amendment Foundation before.
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