On May 10th, the Spokesman Review editorialized on why the gun lobby’s empty warnings against Initiative 594 “lost their oomph”:

“The problem for I-594 opponents is that the law doesn’t go as far as the imaginative ‘what-ifs’ posed during their failed campaign to defeat the initiative.

According to an Associated Press report, ‘They questioned whether background checks would be required for a FedEx worker who transported a gun sold in Washington, whether an unmarried couple living together would be allowed to share a gun, or whether an airline worker would need a background check before handling luggage containing a firearm.’

So far, all these hypotheticals have remained hypothetical.

But that’s an inconvenient truth when trying to get a law tossed that does many things opponents don’t like, such as requiring a background check on private sales. The law is clear on that, so opponents went hunting for examples of confusion in other areas of the law.”

Read the entire editorial here.