News broke late yesterday in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that federal agents arrested a convicted felon in Olympia for buying and selling guns online — even though he was prohibited by law from possessing guns.¹

This story is as scary as it is real. It demonstrates what Everytown revealed in our investigation yesterday: Criminals are flocking to the Internet to buy guns because there’s no requirement to run criminal background checks.

We have to close this loophole and that starts by voting YES on Initiative 594 on the ballot this fall — an initiative that would require background checks for all gun sales in our state.

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Thanks for standing with us.

– Meera

1. “Charge: Washington robber turned to Facebook to deal guns,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 17, 2014.