MOSES LAKE — A Moses Lake gun shop owner has filed a lawsuit in response to the assault weapon ban enacted last week.
Guardian Arms LLC, located at 208 S. Division St., filed the suit in Grant County Superior Court April 25, the same day Gov. Jay Inslee signed the ban. The suit names Inslee, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Grant County Sheriff Joe Kriete as respondents. Also named as petitioners are Ephrata gun dealer Millard Sales LLC, several individual gun owners and the Silent Majority Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy organization based in Pasco.
“We’re filing a lawsuit (because this law is) unconstitutional, number one, and number two for doing irreparable harm to our business,” said Guardian Arms CEO Bruce Davis.
Davis explained that the assault weapons ban prohibits not only the firearms themselves, but also the parts needed to build or repair those firearms.