Billionaires Attack Washington Citizens
I-594 the billionaire law would require burdensome, bureaucratic, expensive and time-consuming background checks on all gun purchases, gifts, loans, handing to a friend, even in a private home, make failure to check background a felony crime, result in registration of both the firearm and the purchaser, and is a thinly-veiled first step toward confiscation of firearms and imprisonment of gun owners.
Its intent is to make good citizen gun owners into criminals, and to discourage gun ownership with impossible “red tape.” Washington State elected legislators voted this law down. The largest law enforcement organization in the state, the Washington Association of Police and Sheriffs, opposes the initiative, saying it would not get guns out of criminal hands, it would be unenforceable, and would be “an impossible bureaucratic nightmare.”
According to the Public Disclosure Commission, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer has given the most to Initiative 594 — $1.5 million, as of the last reporting period. According to records, ex-New York mayor Bloomberg, has donated $1 million; Bill and Melinda Gates have given $1 million; owner of the Los Angeles Clippers Steve Ballmer has given $825,000; and Paul Allen has donated $500,000.
The citizens’ organizations Second Amendment Foundation, WA State Rifle & Pistol Assoc., NRA, with no billionaire contributors, are being outspent more than 7 to 1.
“This is a terrible ballot initiative that was dreamed up by people who don’t even live in Washington,” NRA spokeswoman Catherine Mortensen said.
Don’t vote to please the billionaires!
VOTE NO on I-594
Also put your money & time where your heart is:
GIVE TO and SUPPORT:
Second Amendment Foundation: http://x.co/5XSPZ 12500 NE 10th PL, Bellevue WA 98005 – (425) 454-7012
WA State Rifle & Pistol Association: http://x.co/5YsvC 3903 E. Bridgeport Ave. Spokane, WA 99217- (425) 985-4867
NRA Washingtonians Against 594: www.voteno594.com 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, VA 22030 – (425) 351-4088