Washington State’s latest anti-gun law, which I wrote about previously has been passed out of the committee. This comes as no surprise as the Democrats have a 5 to 3 advantage and one of the bill’s sponsors is the chair. According to Mr. Completely -

An interesting sidelight is that one of the Democratic Senators, Senator Prentice from South Seattle/Renton, originally was going to vote against the bill, thereby keeping it from coming out of committee. As of the end of the Executive session yesterday, that was her position. By this morning, she had changed her mind and voted for it. I wonder who talked to her last night to change her mind, and what they said? We’ll probably never know.

And Phil over at Random Nuclear Strikes has taken a look at the differences from the original bill -

It appears that they have changed the language a litle bit (old bill pdf / new bill pdf) by taking out Section D of the old bill making an auction held by a non-profit NOT a gun show (because it clearly is not one).

However, the rest of it is there.

So, the fight goes on. Warm up the vacation time guys, it looks like we’re going to be taking a couple more trips to Olympia this session.

UPDATE: According to Mr. Completely Senator Jim Clements says that the bill is as dead as “A goose twelve yards away in the middle of my decoys!”. Great News!