On Monday, a judge in Cowlitz County Superior Court said that the state’s law against selling “high-capacity” clips is not legal.
The decision to give the injunction was called “incorrect” by Attorney General Bob Ferguson in a news release on Monday. Ferguson also said that his office had filed an emergency motion with the Washington State Supreme Court to try to stop the ruling.
Not long after the move was sent in, Ferguson said that the Washington State Supreme Court had agreed with the state’s request to stay the case.
While the case was being heard in court, gun shops in the state would have been able to sell high-capacity magazines again if the stay had not been in place.
“Directed to issue a briefing schedule and set a date for oral argument on the emergency motion for a stay,” the Supreme Court said in documents.
In 2022, Democrats in Washington State passed a rule that states magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds are illegal.
In September, the AGO sued Gator’s Custom Guns in Kelso because the store kept selling mags that were against the law. In their defense, lawyers for Gator’s said the rule was against the Constitution.
Ferguson said in the release, “Every court in Washington and across the country that has looked into challenges to a ban on the sale of high-capacity magazines under the U.S. or Washington Constitution has either thrown out those challenges or overruled them.” The Constitution backs up this law. It is also necessary to deal with the problem of mass shootings in our neighborhoods. I have to protect this law because it saves lives.
