21. It is amazing how short people's memories are!
Washington did not always have state preemption on guns. There were a few years (back in the early 1980s?) where the state removed the preemption. Some cities (and counties?) did as expected and create a mismatch of laws by adding their own. After a few years of allowing this nonsense to continue, the state then asked how well these new laws had helped reduce crime. The answer received was that zero people had been arrested, say nothing of convicted or even brought to trial.
As a result, the state put the preemption back and made the firearms laws uniform across the state again.
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