||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOV. JAY INSLEE |||
OLYMPIA — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a trio of bills into law Wednesday morning that restrict firearms, including a new limit on the amount of ammunition in magazines and prohibition on open carry of weapons at city meetings.
The two other pieces of legislation are intended to limit weapons at government meetings and election spaces, and to further tighten prohibitions on the assembly of untraceable “ghost” guns.
Taken together, the bills are some of the strongest gun regulations to be passed by the Legislature. Washington voters in the past decade have three times approved stricter gun laws at the ballot box, after proposals died in Olympia.
Inslee signed the bills in a ceremony Wednesday, surrounded by firearms-safety advocates, including people who have seen friends and family killed or injured from gun violence, as well as lawmakers and state Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
“The NRA’s stranglehold on this state has been broken,” Inslee said in remarks to reporters after the ceremony. “And the reason is because of the courage of the parents, and the courage of legislators, too …”
Still, the fight over the new regulations is likely not over.
