wrote them all and even got a few immediate responses like this one:
"I will strongly oppose gun control! Brian Blake"
If only they were all like that... For those like me, it helps to have a template. Here is what I used:
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As a constituent and concerned Washington State citizen, head of family, business owner and active voter, I ask you to oppose House Bill 2240.
Countless law-abiding citizens, such as myself, own and use magazines that hold more than fifteen rounds of ammunition. They are standard equipment for many of the most commonly-owned firearms in use for self-defense, competition, hunting, and recreational shooting. While 2240 allows citizens to keep the standard capacity magazines they owned prior to the ban, the restrictions make it next to impossible to use these magazines for self-defense.
Please don't restrict my ability to protect myself and my loved ones. There's no reason to believe that criminals will have any more respect for new gun laws that will only restrict self-defense rights of law-abiding citizens like me. Instead of exploring more ways to take away my rights, the Legislature should be looking to reduce crime by going after criminals and their illegal activities directly.
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