Peninsula Daily News

Alexis Myers of the Associated Press reported on the biggest push yet in the Legislature for Dangerous Access Prevention and Enhanced Assault Weapons Background Checks:

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“Gov. Jay Inslee and state lawmakers are pushing to pass legislation that would force people to store their guns safely and would fix what some call a loophole in the current law, which makes it easier to get an assault weapon than a handgun.

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At the news conference, Inslee said “these bills simply ask Washingtonians to be responsible for their firearms.”

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Deputy prosecuting attorney Adam Cornell, told the group his worst day out of the 15 years working in Snohomish County was when he arrived at the scene where a 19-year-old, Allen C. Ivanov, shot and killed three of his former high school classmates at a house party in Mukilteo last year.

Authorities say Ivanov opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle he had just purchased. Ivanov pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to life in prison.

‘That shooting, those murders,’ he paused and said, ‘Occurred in a span of less than 35 seconds … Assault weapons are the most efficient killers of people that we have in our communities.'”

Read the full story at the Peninsula Daily News.