BREAKING NEWS: WA Supreme Court Commissioner formally grants emergency stay in Gator's Guns case

[u/BigTumbleweed2384]

Today (April 25) — on the one-year anniversary of Washington's Assault Weapons Sales Ban — unelected Washington Supreme Court Commissioner Michael Johnston formally stayed the Cowlitz County Superior Court's standard capacity magazine ban ruling in the Gator's Guns case. The counsel representing Gator's Guns now has 30 days to formally object to the Commissioner's ruling via RAP 17.7 - Motion to Modify. Any motion to the Justices in the Supreme Court would either be decided by a panel of five Justices or by the full court. Otherwise, the magazine sales ban will remain in place until the state's appeal commences in the Fall.

Important case links

• 4/25: Ruling Granting AG's Emergency Motion for Stay
• 4/17: WA State Supreme Court Commissioner Hearing
• 4/12: Respondents’ Answer to Petitioner’s Emergency Motion to Stay
• 4/8: AG Ferguson’s statement on the ruling in Washington v. Gator’s Custom Guns
• 4/8: Temporary Stay Granted on Judge Bashor's ruling
• 4/8: AG's Emergency Motion To Stay
• 4/8: Gator’s Guns Ruling and Order on Motions for Summary Judgement (Judge Gary Bashor, Cowlitz County)

[u/ee-5e-ae-fb-f6-3c]

We don't know how the court is going to rule, and one biased and immature commissioner shouldn't be the last straw.

[u/InspectorMadDog → u/ee-5e-ae-fb-f6-3c]

Correct, I am still hoping for the best but prepared for the worst.

[u/BigTumbleweed2384 → u/InspectorMadDog]

FWIW: If you look through the recent WA Supreme Court rulings from 2023, you'll see that Commissioner Johnston recently stayed a Superior Court ruling that gave Oregon State and Washington State control of the Pac-12 and all of its (remaining) assets — only for the Washington Supreme Court to reverse his decision just a few weeks later.

Since Commissioner Johnston's obviously anti-2A — perhaps more than the justices — there's a non-zero chance something like that could also happen in our favor.

[u/geopede → u/[deleted]]

I’d honestly be pretty impressed if someone was easily hitting squirrels at a significant distance with an old school 1911.