The Herald of Everett reports

Backers of an initiative campaign to require background checks on all firearm sales in Washington turned in another 95,000 petition signatures this week, but there are two gun initiatives to the Legislature that appear to have enough signatures.

Backers of I-594 already are looking beyond the divided Legislature, which failed to act on a background checks bill last year even in the Democrat-controlled House.

If lawmakers take no action both proposals would proceed to the November ballot. Zach Silk, I-594 campaign manager, said there is no middle ground between the measures, calling I-591 a misleading attack on background checks.

Silk spoke at the signature turn-in along with the Rev. Sandy Brown, a Methodist minister from Seattle, Cheryl Stumbo, who survived the shooting at the Jewish Federation of Seattle in 2006, and activist Denise Garcia, who collected signatures.

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