5 Shot Outside Safeway in Gun-Controlled Washington State

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Police are searching for multiple suspects after five people were shot outside of a Safeway grocery store Friday night at around 9:00 p.m. in gun-controlled Washington.

KIRO 7 reported that two of the shooting victims were in critical condition.

Seattle police chief Adrian Diaz said, “Dozens and dozens [of rounds] were fired.”

He added, “[There are] too many guns in the wrong places, in the wrong hands.”

The Seattle Times noted that four of the wounded shooting victims were in their twenties and the fifth in his thirties.

Police are seeking “at least two suspects” in connection with the shooting.

Washington has an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, universal background checks, a red flag law, a gun storage law, regulations on firearms that Democrats describe as “ghost guns,” and numerous other controls.

Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranked Washington number ten on its list of gun-controlled states in the nation.

Former mayor of New York City, and Everytown founder, Michael Bloomberg speaks on stage during a forum on gun safety at the Iowa Events Center on August 10, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. The event was hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Former mayor of New York City, and Everytown founder, Michael Bloomberg speaks on stage during a forum on gun safety at the Iowa Events Center on August 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. The event was hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images).

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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