The advocacy group is also pushing for lawmakers to allow private citizens to pursue legal action against gun manufacturers, a proposal that also has Ferguson’s and the governor’s support, according to Inslee spokesperson Jaime Smith.
It remains to be seen if Democrats, who hold comfortable majorities in the state House and Senate, have the political will or votes to push through those ideas or other proposals.
Various proposed bans on semiautomatic rifles have been around for years, but never received the floor votes needed to become law. Republicans in the minority – and sometimes moderate Democrats – have been resistant to passing sweeping gun legislation out of Olympia.
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