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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 29, 2023, 12:15 PM Mar 2023

Senate committee passes bill banning sale of assault weapons in Washington

The manufacture and sale of guns defined as assault weapons would be banned in the state under a bill that passed out of the Senate Law & Justice Committee Tuesday afternoon.

House Bill 1240 defines dozens of guns that would qualify, including modifications that would add weapons to the list.

“We have to take action,” said committee chair Sen. Manka Dhingra (D-Redmond).

Dhingra and other Democrats said the legislation could prevent mass shootings, like Monday’s at a school in Nashville. Three students and three staff members of The Covenant School were killed by a former student.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-committee-passes-bill-banning-sale-of-assault-weapons-in-washington/ar-AA19cgob

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Senate committee passes bill banning sale of assault weapons in Washington (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2023 OP
If the bill goes to the chamber floor, there's going to be a huge donnybrook over the definition Aristus Mar 2023 #1

Aristus

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1. If the bill goes to the chamber floor, there's going to be a huge donnybrook over the definition
Wed Mar 29, 2023, 12:21 PM
Mar 2023

of "assault rifle".

Repukes, of course, will insist that there's no such thing. But I never see those four hundred-pound mama's boys in tactical gear sporting BB guns.

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