The Gun Banners are in Olympia
- Many of Your Firearms Will Be Illegal and You Won’t Be Able to Sell Them
- Your Pistol Magazines Will Be Banned and You Won’t Be Able to Buy More
- Your Self-Defense Carry Pistol Will Be Banned
- Rimfire .22’s Included in the Bans
The legislature is in session and your personal freedoms are at risk. There are many firearm bills filed but the most outrageous are those introduced at the request of Governor Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Go to the legislative information site to read the entire text of these bills: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/
The most damaging of these bills are: Senate Bills 5340, 6076 and House Bills 1286, 2241
These are companion bills that for the most part contain identical provisions including:
–A long list of banned “assault weapons” that names all AR, AK, HK, CETME, FN and every rifle that is related in name or appearance to a semautomatic or automatic rifle that may have been a military firearm.
–A typical California style appearance-based list of items; only one of these will re-define a firearm as an assault weapon: pistol grip, thumbhole stock, folding or telescoping stock, forward grip, flash suppressor, muzzle brake, threaded barrel, large capacity magazine of greater than 10 rounds.
–Every “semiautomatic, centerfire, or rimfire rifle that has an overall length of less than thirty inches” is an assault weapon that would be banned.
–”Copycat Weapon” is introduced to define and include as assault weapons any firearm that looks like the listed firearms or has a detachable magazine and one of the assault weapon characteristics such as a threaded barrel. The bills are so poorly written that it is unclear whether or not Copycat Weapon might include common pistols that have a threaded barrel; the Copycat definition uses the term “firearm,” not rifle.
Carry of Most Modern Defensive Pistols Banned
These bills are not just about rifles. All magazines that hold more than 10 rounds cannot be imported, sold, transferred, or possessed—both rifles and pistols. So, all modern self-defense pistols will no longer be legal…unless they have magazines with reduced capacity.
There is a grandfathering provision for those who own such magazines (or assault weapons) but it is so restrictive and narrowly worded that carry of your modern pistol with a Concealed Pistol License appears to be unlawful. Here is the text: “…shall possess the assault weapon or large capacity magazine only on property owned or immediately controlled by the person, or while engaged in the legal use of the assault weapon or large capacity magazine at a duly licensed firing range, or while engaged in a lawful outdoor recreational activity such as hunting, or while traveling to or from either of these locations for the purpose of engaging in the legal use of the assault weapon or large capacity magazine, provided that the assault weapon or large capacity magazine is stored unloaded and in a separate locked container during transport.” Your Concealed Pistol License has been voided by this language since transport must be locked, with the firearm unloaded. Even though you now own, for example, a Glock or M&P pistol with a high-cap mag, you will not be able to carry this pistol loaded when off your private property. These provisions clearly make the proposed laws both a ban and a seizure of your property. Criminals remain free to use firearms while good citizens are placed on home arrest.
The Perpetrators
The politicians sponsoring this outrage are Governor Jay Inslee, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Senators Kuderer, Dhingra, Carlyle, Hunt, Keiser, Nguyen, Saldana, Wellman, Darneille; Representatives Peterson, Valdez, Appleton, Dolan, Frame, Ryu, Robinson, Macri, Walen, Bergquist, Kloba, Pollet, Thai, Doglio.
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