H-0521.2
HOUSE BILL 1386
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Representatives Thai, Ryu, Davis, Duerr, Parshley, Peterson, Reed, Ramel, Gregerson, Doglio, Cortes, Salahuddin, Fosse, Pollet, Hill, Macri, Scott, and Santos
Read first time 01/20/25. Referred to Committee on Finance.
AN ACT Relating to imposing a new tax on firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition; amending RCW 82.32.145 ; adding a new chapter to Title 82 RCW; creating a new section; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. Gun violence remains a persistent health and safety threat for people across our state. In Washington, a person is killed by a firearm every 14 hours and nearly half of all suicides are from firearms.
According to the 2022 national veteran suicide prevention annual report, when it comes to comparing veterans and United States adults who died from suicide in 2020, guns were more commonly involved among veterans, 71 percent, than nonveterans, 50.3 percent. Data from the Washington office of firearm safety and violence prevention show that, in 2021, 69 percent of all firearm-related deaths were suicides. Further, deaths by gun violence is the leading cause in Washington for teens between ages 15 and 19.