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"HR 1604: Washington State considers legalizing firearm suppressors. Write your reps!"

Aren't they already legal? If they are, what's the point of "legalizing" them again? Seems redundant to me.

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Aren't they already legal? If they are, what's the point of "legalizing" them again? Seems redundant to me.

Legal to own, but not to shoot. That's pretty much like DC's "guns aren't illegal here at all... you just have to have registered them before 1978 and store them unloaded and disassembled and never take them out of the house without permission."

Presumably the law was meant to actually ban silencers back in the 1970s or whatnot, but it was poorly-written and just said "you can't shoot with them," so some folks just started arguing the fine print, buying them, and only shooting them on vacations to OR and ID. Or else just saying "forget that law" and shooting them out in the woods on their property.

Make enough dumb laws and eventually everyone is a criminal.