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Yes, the same Paul Allen that looks for sunken ships, restores rare aircraft, & owns the Seahawks throws some pocket change to try to keep adults from buying guns. http://komonews.com/news/local...ngton-gun-initiative SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft co-founder and Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen has donated $1 million to a campaign seeking to raise the age to purchase semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 in Washington state. Allen made the announcement on Twitter Monday. The Alliance for Gun Responsibility says Initiative 1639 also would create a background check system similar to the one required for handguns, require completion of a firearms safety course and create standards for safe gun storage. The group's initiative effort comes after lawmakers in the Democratic-controlled Statehouse declined to bump the minimum age to buy semi-automatic weapons after the February mass shooting at a Florida high school. The alliance needs roughly 260,000 petition signatures before the initiative can qualify for the 2018 ballot. In 2014, Allen donated $500,000 to a successful campaign seeking to expand background checks on gun sales in the state. | ||
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Money down the drain, but it makes him feel better, so... | |||
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Novice Elk Harvester |
 I love visiting his collection at Paine Field, but why do all these billionaires, who no doubt employ armed security, feel the need to constantly throw money at Constitution-hating ideals?!? "SUCCESS only comes before WORK in the dictionary" | |||
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That is what "bleeding hearts" do. NRA Life Endowment member Tri-State Gun collectors Life Member | |||
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Yeah read a few years back that Allen employed 11 ex-SEALs, probably all team guys. Pretty sure they're armed..  | |||
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thin skin can't win |
Why not a billion or three if you're serious about it. Loser. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
How ironic that he was murdered by an axe wielding Patrick Bateman. His business cards are lovely though... ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Its Washington state which is only slightly less absurd that California. Who cares what they do to themselves. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Honky Lips |
Are we going to boycott Microsoft? | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
I did that years ago. I've also noted, several times over the years, that all of Microsoft's founders were anti-gun. Actively so. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
That's like saying ex-US Pro Football players, probably all NFL guys...  | |||
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Guns for me, but not for thee.  "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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So you don't think this action will materially reduce gun violence in the state of Washington? "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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The Joy Maker |
Once they're done fucking us, they're coming for you. They figured out that it's real hard to get anything done Federally, but if they just chip, chip, chip away at the local and state level, eventually they'll get what they want, which is civilian disarmament. Yeah, maybe you'll be fine, but one day it'll be your kids, or your grandkids. 
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Allen is not easily misguided. Nor Nick Hanauer, who also donated $1 million. The safety of schools and communities is their reasoning. WA State I-1639 - the text it defines "semiautomatic assault rifles" as any semiautomatic rifle, including a tube magazine .22LR WA State I-1639 Ballot Measure Summary This measure would require enhanced background checks, firearm training, and waiting periods before semiautomatic assault rifles may be purchased or delivered. It would impose age limitations on who may purchase or possess certain firearms, including prohibiting firearm purchases by persons under age 21. It would require certain secured firearm storage or trigger-locks, and criminalize certain firearm storage if it results in unauthorized use. It would enact other firearm-related requirements, including certain warnings, record keeping, and fees. With this influx of funds and the commercials that will soon air ... the Initiative has the backing of the usual cronies in this State. Fortunately, those of us who give a damn, are rallying as we are allowed to do ... We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin. "If anyone in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their head read, because as a government, you are not spending it that well, that we should be donating extra...: Kerry Packer SIGForum: the island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea. | |||
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meant to say probably all team 6 guys. | |||
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Hoping for better pharmaceuticals |
He hates The Constitution and feels Elites should rewrite it. Getting shot is no achievement. Hitting your enemy is. NRA Endowment Member . NRA instructor | |||
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You're a funny man. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Ya think so? Just watch what happens this fall to a whole bunch of those politicos in Tallahassee who got behind the BS gun control changes they allowed through this year. Quite a few of these nitwits ended their political careers as Parkland will be way in the rearview by November...but Florida gun owners won't forget. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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| The Joy Maker |
Yeah, everything is fine today, but tomorrow is another day.
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