Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Gator’s Custom Guns and its owner, Walter Wentz, for unlawfully selling high-capacity magazines. It’s the second lawsuit filed to enforce the ban on sales of magazines with capacity to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
The Kelso-based retailer continued selling high-capacity magazines — potentially thousands — after the law went into effect in July 2022. The lawsuit asserts the retailer intentionally violated the Consumer Protection Act when it unlawfully offered 11,408 high-capacity magazines for sale to the public. Gator’s sold a total of five high-capacity magazines to investigators on two separate occasions.
Ferguson’s lawsuit, filed in Cowlitz County Superior Court, seeks to force Gator’s Custom Guns to stop unlawfully stocking, advertising and selling high-capacity magazines and to destroy or return to its distributors all of its remaining inventory. The suit also seeks civil penalties for every violation of the Consumer Protection Act. The maximum penalty is $7,500 every time the retailer sold or offered to sell a high-capacity magazine.
