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Washington Repeal Restrictions on Assault Weapons, Magazines, and Concealed Pistols Initiative (2025)
| Washington Repeal Restrictions on Assault Weapons, Magazines, and Concealed Pistols Initiative | |
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| Election date November 4, 2025 | |
| Topic Firearms policy | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Washington Repeal Restrictions on Assault Weapons, Magazines, and Concealed Pistols Initiative is not on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the People, a type of initiated state statute, on November 4, 2025.
This initiative would have repealed laws restricting assault weapons, large-capacity magazines, and concealed pistols; eliminated the governor’s emergency authority to restrict such objects; applied these changes to pending legal cases; and dissolved departments created to enforce the repealed laws.[1]
Text of measure
The full text is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Washington, the number of signatures required to qualify a directly initiated state statute—called an Initiative to the People in Washington—for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast for the office of governor at the last regular gubernatorial election. Initial filings for direct initiatives cannot be made more than 10 months before the general election at which their proposal would be presented to voters. Signatures must be submitted at least four months prior to the general election.
The requirements to get an Initiative to the People certified for the 2025 ballot:
The secretary of state verifies the signatures using a random sample method. If the sample indicates that the measure has sufficient signatures, the measure is certified for the ballot. However, if the sample indicates that the measure has insufficient signatures, every signature is checked. Under Washington law, a random sample result may not invalidate a petition.
Details about this initiative
- Vincent Antonino filed the initiative on March 10, 2025. The ballot language was issued on April 4, 2025.[1]
- No signatures were submitted by July 3, 2025, which was the submission deadline. As such, the initiative was not placed on the November 2025 ballot.
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