Days after a ban on so-called high capacity magazines failed to meet a legislative deadline, a Washington State lawmaker is trying to revive the measure by attaching the ban language to another piece of legislation.
Rep. Javier Valdez’s HB2947 repeals a couple of tax breaks in the state, and also establishes a compensated confiscation plan for magazines that can hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition.
A public hearing on the measure has already been scheduled for Tuesday morning in Olympia, but in an interesting twist, the original sponsor of the magazine ban says he won’t support the effort to enact the gun control plan through the substitute bill. “I can’t support this process,” [Rep. Mike] Chapman said Saturday. “It didn’t pass” by the policy bill deadline “and now to tie it to tax policy doesn’t feel right. … The public should know. This is not right.”