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Washington Firearms History: From Territorial Trails to Initiative Battles

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:16.529Z

Spent some time reading through this piece on Washington's firearms history, and there's more substance here than you'd expect from a state-level overview. Idaho and Washington share a long border and a lot of the same hunting country east of the Cascades, so this isn't exactly foreign territory for most of us. Washington's firearms story doesn't start with colonial settlement — it starts with fur trade forts, Hudson's Bay Company factors distributing trade guns to Native nations, and the sl...

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Washington Firearms History: From Territorial Trails to Initiative Battles

Washington State sits in an unusual position in American firearms history. The same state that produced some of the most consequential gun control ballot initiatives in the country is also home to the Second Amendment Foundation, one of the most acti

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