Posted on 11/19/2014 5:27:21 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
LYNDEN — The Lynden Pioneer Museum will remove World War II-era guns from a current exhibit and return them to their owners, to avoid violating the new background-check law, according to the museum’s director.
The new law, passed by voters this month as Initiative 594, requires background checks on the recipients of guns in all sales or transfers, with exceptions for family members and antiques.
The 11 rifles the museum borrowed from collectors for the exhibit are too new to qualify as antique under the law, and I-594 is silent on any exemption for museum displays.
“I read through the law about 10 different times looking for a loophole,” said Troy Luginbill, the museum’s director.
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Face, meet palm.
There is a reason it is called the People’s Socialist State of Washington.
It will have to be in the courts because the Rat controlled legislature isn’t going to do it.
Destroy that history in the museum!
Flaming idiots.
Can the Museum folks not pass a background check?
Just wait until Inslee makes us the laughing stick of the country with his cap and trade initiative.
And then there are the lazy voters that didn't bother to read I-594 and thought it was a 'good law' as they only paid attention to the commercials.
Ed
“For an insane asylum, the State of Washington is rather large.”
It’s an asylum that is a great example of democracy at it’s worst. The ignorant mob rules the day.
Why does a ‘Pioneer Museum’ have displays from the 1940s?
The democrats are right about one thing - the voters ARE stupid.
So does WA have ‘registration’, or state firearms records?
If so, and someone has a gun without ‘records’ on it, it would be easy to say the possessor is not the owner and had ‘borrowed’ it, illegally.
Too much of a stretch?
The museum has antique cars and a lot of other items related to the farming nature of the town. It's a nice little conservative Dutch village. Having wartime weapons doesn't strike me as all that strange.
Whatcom County, in which Lynden lies, is a Republican stronghold. Bellingham may be fairly lefty, but not the entire county.
Thanks. Makes some sense, then. I usually think of pioneers as being a generation or two before that.
Why displays from the 40’s? The word pioneer is not limited to wagon trains and early settlers.
The M-1 Carbine pictured was issued to many other troops such as paratroopers. Certain paratroopers in WWII who volunteered for especially dangerous missions that had slim odds of return were invited to join groups acgually called “Pioneers” by the military.
Many of them who were jssued M-1 carbines were in the 101st airborne and these “Pioneers” jumped further behind the lines on D Day than their brothers. These pioneers contributed greatly to the fact that English is not spoken as a second language spoken with a Teutonic accent here.
12B20 is a pioneer, in Army speak.
You might want to do a bit more research. Pioneers are generally combat engineers or sappers, not super elite paratroops.
I will confess that it didn’t occur to me that the museum would be about combat engineers.
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