{"id":102520,"date":"2019-01-03T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=102520"},"modified":"2019-01-03T09:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:03:56","slug":"washington-age-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/washington-age-rifles\/","title":{"rendered":"18, 19, and 20-Year-Old Washington Residents Can No Longer Purchase Semi-Auto Rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_102524\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/washington-ban.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-age-rifles\" title=\"18, 19, and 20-Year-Old Washington Residents Can No Longer Purchase Semi-Auto Rifles\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102524\" title=\"18, 19, and 20-Year-Old Washington Residents Can No Longer Purchase Semi-Auto Rifles\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/washington-ban-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"18, 19, and 20-Year-Old Washington Residents Can No Longer Purchase Semi-Auto Rifles\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/washington-ban-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/washington-ban-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/washington-ban.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-102524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Washington law define&#8217;s &#8220;assault rifle&#8221; to include even .22-caliber firearms.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first part of Washington State\u2019s new slate of gun ban policies took effect this week and prohibited anyone under the age of 21 from purchasing any kind of semiautomatic rifle.<\/p>\n<p>The measures passed in November when, spurred by a massive campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20181010\/there-s-nothing-grassroots-about-bloomberg-backed-gun-control\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-age-rifles\" title=\"18, 19, and 20-Year-Old Washington Residents Can No Longer Purchase Semi-Auto Rifles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funded by Michael Bloomberg<\/a>, 59 percent of Washingtonians voted in favor of ballot initiative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.wa.gov\/_assets\/elections\/initiatives\/finaltext_1531.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-age-rifles\" title=\"18, 19, and 20-Year-Old Washington Residents Can No Longer Purchase Semi-Auto Rifles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I-1639<\/a>. Along with restricting the age to purchase a 10\/22, I-1639 also creates a registry of gun owners, establishes a 10-day waiting period for certain purchases, holds gun owners liable for failing to secure firearms, and allows the state to charge a $25 fee on the sale of \u201cassault rifles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting today, young adults between the ages of 18 to 20 will have their rights to purchase semi-automatic rifles stripped away,&#8221; Dave Workman, a spokesman for the Bellevue, Washington-based Second Amendment Foundation, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/washington-bans-anyone-under-21-buying-assault-rifles-n953576\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-age-rifles\" title=\"18, 19, and 20-Year-Old Washington Residents Can No Longer Purchase Semi-Auto Rifles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to many other pieces of gun control legislation, Washington\u2019s initiative expands the definition of \u201cassault rifle\u201d to include \u201cany rifle which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/draconian-i-1639-ballot-measure-passes-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-age-rifles\" title=\"18, 19, and 20-Year-Old Washington Residents Can No Longer Purchase Semi-Auto Rifles\" rel=\"bookmark\">Draconian I-1639 Ballot Measure Passes in Washington<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Defining \u201cassault rifle\u201d in this way will prohibit legal adults from purchasing even .22-caliber rifles commonly used to train youngsters in safety and shooting fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Amendment Foundation joined the National Rifle Association in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/nra-second-amendment-foundation-file-suit-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-age-rifles\" title=\"18, 19, and 20-Year-Old Washington Residents Can No Longer Purchase Semi-Auto Rifles\"> filing a lawsuit against<\/a> I-1639. Plaintiffs also include firearms dealers in Spokane and Vancouver, a 19-year-old competitive shooter, a 19-year-old in the Army Reserves, and a 20-year-old recreational shooter.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit challenges the measure on the grounds that it violates the commerce clause by banning sales of rifles to non-residents, and that it unconstitutionally impairs the rights guaranteed by the First, Second and Fourteenth Amendments, and Article I Section 24 of the Washington State Constitution by preventing the sale of certain rifles to otherwise qualified adults under age 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEighteen-year-olds are serving right now in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria in the uniform of the U.S. Armed Forces,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/1186859\/nra-second-amendment-foundation-suing-wa-over-i-1639\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-age-rifles\" title=\"18, 19, and 20-Year-Old Washington Residents Can No Longer Purchase Semi-Auto Rifles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said NRA President and U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North<\/a>. \u201cAnd he comes home and he\u2019s 19 and he can\u2019t buy a firearm? Where\u2019s the common sense in that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cclassifying all semi-automatic rifles as an assault weapons\u201d is \u201csetting folks up for false expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other components of I-1639, including the safe storage requirement and expanded background checks, are set to take effect on July 1.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first part of Washington State\u2019s new slate of gun ban policies took effect this week and prohibited 18, 19, and 20-year-olds from purchasing any kind of semiautomatic rifle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":102524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,593,240],"tags":[132,469,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-jordan-michaels","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-gun-control","13":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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