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A pro-gun nonprofit based in Bellevue has asked Washington's Supreme Court to block an initiative that would implement a new slate of gun restrictions from reaching the November ballot, arguing the campaign's petitions did not meet legal standards.

The Second Amendment Foundation filed the challenge with the high court late Friday, just days before the campaign for I-1639 said it plans to turn in more than 360,000 signatures to qualify for a public vote.

Tallman Trask, a spokesman for the I-1639 campaign, characterized the lawsuit as a last-ditch effort to stop the initiative since pro-gun organizations "can't win at the ballot." He told The News Tribune and The Olympian the I-1639 campaign plans to move forward with turning in signatures at the end of the week.

In a news release, Alan Gottlieb, the founder of the gun group, said the I-1639 campaign failed to properly show what current state laws would be changed and eliminated by the proposed measure through underlines and strike-out lines, standard practice on legislative bills at the Capitol.

State law requires a "full, true, and correct copy" of the proposed measure printed on the petition. The court filing by attorney Shawn Newman contends the petition text doesn't match official text provided by the state's Code Reviser's office since it lacks those page markups.

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/politics-government/article214222704.html