Posted on 02/17/2013 11:48:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A new gun law calls on sheriffs to search the home of assault weapon owners.
A proposed Washington State gun law will call on the county sheriff to inspect the homes of assault-weapon owners. Seattle Times reported, via Free Republic:
One of the major gun-control efforts in Olympia this session calls for the sheriff to inspect the homes of assault-weapon owners. The bill’s backers say that was a mistake.
Forget police drones flying over your house. How about police coming inside, once a year, to have a look around?
As Orwellian as that sounds, it isn’t hypothetical. The notion of police home inspections was introduced in a bill last week in Olympia.
That it’s part of one of the major gun-control efforts pains me. It seemed in recent weeks lawmakers might be headed toward some common-sense regulation of gun sales. But then last week they went too far. By mistake, they claim. But still too far.
“They always say, we’ll never go house to house to take your guns away. But then you see this, and you have to wonder.”
That’s no gun-rights absolutist talking, but Lance Palmer, a Seattle trial lawyer and self-described liberal who brought the troubling Senate Bill 5737 to my attention...
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
The Sheriffs dept. should demand that a legislator accompany them on all of these inspections and approach the homes first.
Nawww, it's just a coincidence that states all over the country are introducing bills like this all at the same time.
4th amendment, 5th amendment....all fun and games til the resistance...
Darn WA state was one of those places I had thought to retire.. if that is possible. Maybe it will return to sanity. Thanks for the post.
The laboratories of democracy have become the stomping grounds of socialists/totalitarians. Totalitarians and their tactics coming out of the woodwork for the Totalitarian-in-Chief.
FUBO
Eastern Washington state is wonderfully beautiful. But it’s like far Northern California: wonderful but the rest of the state is infested with liberals and it sucks.
The best way to describe Washington state...is that it’s twenty percent radical liberal, ten percent plain Democrat, and ten percent Republican. The rest? Don’t know anything political and don’t care about anything political.
I lived there for fourteen months in the early 80’s, and would say that there is a certain lifestyle among those who grew up there. They have a big thing about hiking, boating, skiing, fishing, and anything outdoors. There’s also a trend for people living in California who hate the cost of living there....to accept Washington as an alternate place to live.
Finally, I always thought that if any state were going to go and make marijuana legal....this would be the state, and probably sixty percent of the state would support such a open-sales market. Just my humble opinion.
“Darn WA state was one of those places I had thought to retire.. if that is possible. Maybe it will return to sanity. Thanks for the post.”
You are 30 years too late, and no it will not return to sanity any time soon as the California moonbats are fully in control with no resistance. Understand that one county controls the state - King County (Seattle).
Don’t imagine that you could move to some small town in Eastern WA and be immune. Before I left the eccowackos were trying to burn out snall towns near forests.
The only way they would get into my house would be over my dead body.
Do they burn you out if you don’t surrender immediately?
Yes, if you don’t surrender right away, they burn you out but first they shoot your dog.
This is what irks me. If your alright with violating the constitution with gun restrictions you have no real problems with searching my home. Stop lying and say it. This wording in this bill was no mistake.
That would assume they have any idea who owns these mystical weapons.
There is no registration in WA, and I wouldn’t imagine much compliance, if instituted.
It also assumes the courts will agree that ownership justifies “probable cause” for some unwarranted search, with unspecified objectives.
By what authority could the police “inspect” a law-abiding citizen’s house? Law or no law, allowing this would be tantamount to bowing to the masters like good slaves.
This story was posted yesterday, and I made the comment then that the home inspection language is also in the Minnesota House language of HF241. It’s pretty safe to say that the gun control effort seems to be orchestrated at a national level.
These legislators in WA just used language developed (or pushed) by someone else, and made the mistake of not reading it before they signed on to be an author of it. Stupid, however, I believe that if they thought they could get away with it, they would definitely have included the home inspection language in the bill, anyways.
Since they are talking about guns,the first thing they have to do is define assault rifles.
Anything can be used as an assault weapon.
Since they are talking about guns,the first thing they have to do is define assault rifles.
Anything can be used as an assault weapon.
If you think this is just about guns, think again. Once guns are gone there is nothing left to oppose total government control. The “fear of guns” is clearly being used to overturn the freedoms granted in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Once something like this passes in one state, it will quickly move to all, perhaps aided by another erroneous interpretation of the commerce clause. Stand up now or forfeit your rights - your choice.
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