“While COVID-19 and police reform may be top of mind, lawmakers are making plenty of time for some of the more familiar proposals, including the effort to ban so-called high capacity magazines.

For at least the fourth straight year, Democrats in the Legislature will try to make it illegal to buy, possess, manufacture, or sell magazines with more than 10 rounds in Washington state.

‘All six of the deadliest mass shootings in the last decade — Las Vegas, Orlando, Newtown, Sutherland Springs, El Paso, and Parkland — have involved high capacity magazines, and in our state mass shootings in Mukilteo, downtown Seattle, Burlington, and Spokane have all involved high capacity magazines,’ said Democrat Senator Marko Liias, who is sponsoring the bill.”

Read the full story by Hanna Scott in MyNorthwest.