Student activist calls for walkout over new WA gun control scheme

A 17-year-old student activist from Whidbey Island, Wash., who energized more than 2,000 pro-Second Amendment demonstrators earlier this year at the state capitol in Olympia, is reportedly calling for a student walkout to protest passage of a gun control initiative that strips young adults of their right to purchase and possess any semiautomatic rifle beginning Jan. 1, according to MyNorthwest.com. Aryeh Rohde would have been old enough to buy a self-loading rifle next year, but the passage of Initiative 1639 put the brakes on any such plan. Under this new law, young adults ages 18-20 can no longer legally buy even a .22-caliber semi-auto such as the popular Ruger 10/22, which is among the most commonly-owned small game hunting and recreational target rifles on the landscape..MORE