While some lawmakers in Washington state want to ban bump stocks, gun control is a low priority with voters,
a new poll reveals.
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A new Elway Poll released this week shows that legislative priorities among Evergreen State voters are taxes, education and the economy, while gun control and crime are barely a blip on the radar screen.
Yet in Olympia there are looming threats of more attempts at gun control, including an effort to dismantle state preemption, a law that gun rights advocates say has served the test of time and maintained uniformity of gun laws statewide. Gun control may be an important issue with some people, but it is not a consensus topic, Seattle-based independent pollster Stuart Elway suggested via telephone.
According to the new polling data, only 2 percent of the state’s voters rate gun control, crime, drugs and public safety as priorities.
