Today in Olympia, Governor Jay Inslee signed the Sheena Henderson act, which allows family members to request notification when a confiscated gun is returned into law. As The Columbian reports:

Inslee signed the “Sheena Henderson Act” into law Tuesday afternoon with her family members looking on. The bill is named for a Spokane woman killed by her husband in a 2014 murder-suicide in which he used a weapon police had returned to him without her knowledge.Senate Bill 5381 passed both chambers of the Legislature unanimously. It allows family members to request police contact them before a person with a history of mental health issues or domestic violence gets guns back that police have taken away.

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