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Ahead of the 2023 legislative session, politics reporter Joseph O'Sullivan offers a crash course on state firearms restrictions.

The Alliance for Gun Responsibility's policy agenda for the upcoming legislative session also includes a permit-to-purchase law.

State officials have decided to push forward a voter-approved measure requiring annual background checks of pistol and semiautomatic rifle owners.

State officials have yet to start annual background checks for owners of pistols and semiautomatic rifles — and they have no concrete plans to do so.

Washington already ranked among the strictest states for firearm laws before it passed additional gun control legislation this year. But advocates say there's still room for improvement.

But in the wake of the Uvalde shooting, some students and educators say a national reckoning on guns is key to school safety.

As gun deaths rise, Seattle-area leaders hope peer pressure can break cycles of violence.

We must contend with racist indignities of all types if we want to root out bigotry in our society.

He’s already written about racism’s intersections with gun control, the insurance industry and Amazon — and he wants to spark more conversations.