I have read my voters’ pamphlet, and I am convinced that Initiative 594  is the way to go.  The current law requires background checks if someone buys a gun from a firearms store;  the law would extend the background check to individual gun sales.  So, if someone wanted to sell a gun to some stranger on the Internet, they would have to require a background check first.

The initiative includes common-sense exemptions.  For instance, no background check would be required if you gave a gun as a gift to a family member, or if you loaned a gun to a family member for hunting or target shooting.   Law enforcement officers and members of the military would, of course, also be exempt from background checks.

A recent letter writer claimed that not even the military or law enforcement would be exempt.  Wrong.  He also said that if  a grandfather handed a gun to his grandson to try at a shooting range, he would be committing a felony.  Also wrong.  I wonder if the letter writer actually ever read the law or the voters’ pamphlet.

Get the facts.  Read the law.  Then decide.

Judy Ronningen, Bellevue