King County Council addressed the need to make guns less accessible while also stressing the importance of providing essential resources to those in more impoverished areas of the county during its meeting Wednesday morning.
. “We’ve also done a lot of work around open carry and armed intimidation. We saw especially in the last couple of years of a huge increase in violence.”
The law also closes the ‘boyfriend loophole,’ which refers to an individual who’s convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, as part of a dating relationship, who would not have been prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm prior to the enactment of this bill, according to Government Affairs Director Matt Nicholson.
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