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Bill to Allow Gun Destruction Advances in Washington State
AmmoLand ^ | 25 February, 2020 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 03/01/2020 5:08:35 AM PST by marktwain

27 years ago, Washington state passed a bill requiring the Washington State Police to sell valuable firearms rather than destroying them. Provisions were made for the destruction of firearms which could not be legally owned.

For political reasons, local law enforcement agencies were not included. In some of those jurisdictions, such as the Yakima Police Department and Vancouver Police department, all guns are destroyed for political reasons.

A bill to allow the State Police to destroy legal guns passed the House in the Washington state legislature on 23 January 2020.

Selling or not selling the guns has no effect on the availability of guns because the guns are sold through licensed dealers.  They are simply another gun in a dealer's stock.  Destroying guns that have ended up in police hands simply means the money goes to a gun manufacturer to produce another gun, instead of to the police.

The Bill, HB1010, passed in the House 56 to 42, on a partisan vote. From columbian.com:

The House passed the bill along party lines Jan. 23, with Democrats voting in favor and Republicans against. Its next stop is the Senate Rules Committee and then a floor vote.

Rep. Sharon Wylie, D-Vancouver, cosponsored the bill. Wylie said it seems like an oversight that state patrol is unable to destroy firearms, and it makes sense to change the law to have consistency.

The Washington State Patrol wants the bill to pass, and its intended changes are needed, communications director Chris Loftis said.

“Current law allows other law enforcement agencies the option to destroy but is strict with WSP, stating that we must keep them for agency use or auction/trade with licensed dealers, who then will sell them to the public,” Loftis said in an email.

About a dozen states have passed legislation requiring police to sell

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; gundestruction; police; wa
Destroying valuable property is not rational.

Those who wish a disarmed population do not consider guns to be valuable property.

1 posted on 03/01/2020 5:08:36 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

This is to compliment the red flag law no doubt.

Confiscate and destroy immediately.


2 posted on 03/01/2020 5:11:41 AM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: marktwain

“Provisions were made for the destruction of firearms which could not be legally owned.”

“... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

“Provisions were made for the destruction of firearms which could not be legally owned.”

“... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”


3 posted on 03/01/2020 5:12:33 AM PST by coloradan (The Enemy Media isn't chartered to inform but rather to advance the interests of certain elites.)
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To: marktwain
Why we NEED is a "Bill to Allow Destruction of People Who Want To Destroy Guns" !


"A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me."
King George III



The United States Citizens KNOW that they're going to have to fight TYRANTS in their own government.
You can not protect life, without the ability to take life.

While you are WAITING for the police to respond, someone could be losing their life.
All people of a responsible age should be armed.

As EternalVigilance reminded us:

Click here to read the 12 page pamphlet.


Let us NEVER FORGET THAT !

Let's subjugate them to OUR end game, DUST!
"COMPROMISE" is a DIRTY word!
People who study the Bible know that COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.


It's time to mock the "Gun Control" Zombies!
"Gun Control" is a firm grip, steady breathing, accurate aim (developed by lots of practice), and a slow trigger pull.


4 posted on 03/01/2020 5:17:38 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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NYC used to take their confiscated weapons out to sea and dump them. The only problem was there were individuals in that process who had access to those weapons and would basically get the pick of the litter for their own personal use. Not legally of course...


5 posted on 03/01/2020 5:18:05 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: headstamp 2

except the cartels, gangs and criminals. They don’t fool around and will kill you if you try it. We just sit back and let it happen and they know we are not a threat


6 posted on 03/01/2020 5:20:47 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: marktwain

I still get misty eyed thinking about the weapons Clinton fed into Captain Crunch.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19801/meet-the-pentagons-gun-eating-machine/


7 posted on 03/01/2020 5:21:10 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: marktwain

I was thinking, wouldn’t it give me the warm and fuzzies if I could drop off my old, used firearms with my old, used clothes at the Salvation Army so they could go to the poor.


8 posted on 03/01/2020 5:32:45 AM PST by RubinBoomer (Please be nice. I am new here. I'm open to doing things the FR way, just need to know.)
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To: marktwain

“Destroying valuable property is not rational.”

Liberals, leftists, commies, fascists, socialists etc are not rational.


9 posted on 03/01/2020 5:34:35 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: marktwain

Destruction of valuable resources always sickens me.


10 posted on 03/01/2020 5:39:01 AM PST by wally_bert (Spend like you were going to the electric chair!)
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To: marktwain

And by ‘destruction’, they mean the nice ones are going home with the high ranking officers.


11 posted on 03/01/2020 5:43:24 AM PST by real saxophonist (Everything I Play Gone Be Funky, From Now On)
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To: real saxophonist

I don’t have that, it was destructed! I oversaw it myself. Here’s the paperwork.


12 posted on 03/01/2020 5:45:29 AM PST by real saxophonist (Everything I Play Gone Be Funky, From Now On)
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To: marktwain

This is likely to make more people realize the purpose of the 2nd Amendment, which is to prevent a totalitarian government from coming to power.


13 posted on 03/01/2020 6:50:35 AM PST by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: marktwain

This doesn’t sound right; especially from the point of view of those concerned about climate change.

Yes, it took a lot of fossil fuel energy to create those guns, and it will take even more to melt down the steel. Huge carbon footprint.

But from the gun manufacturers and retail gun sellers point of view, eliminating this source of old guns for the public to buy will be a good thing. The destroyed guns are no longer in competition.

It may be that as gun manufacturers ramp up production to meet demand, the per unit cost to make new guns will decrease (economies of scale) allowing consumers everywhere to benefit from the lower unit cost.

Soon we will be able to buy even more new guns with the same money.


14 posted on 03/01/2020 7:59:39 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

In constant dollars, guns are cheaper now than they have ever been.


15 posted on 03/01/2020 8:38:53 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

The anti-gun crowd will soon say guns taken by police in red flag situations must be destroyed at once so a later exoneration won’t “put guns on the streets.

Guns confiscated by police from a person who has it while committing a felony or a person already a felon and had a gun should first be checked to see if it had been stolen and if so, it should be returned to the legal owner.

After that the remaining guns not claimed should be sold to a legal gun dealer so the police budget benefits.


16 posted on 03/01/2020 8:56:40 AM PST by RicocheT (Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: RicocheT

“...The anti-gun crowd will soon say guns taken by police in red flag situations must be destroyed at once so a later exoneration won’t “put guns on the streets....”
Exactly. That was the real purpose for these communist red flag laws to start with: to get “the camel’s nose under the tent” for future complete confiscation without having to deal with that nasty, old, pesky Constitution.


17 posted on 03/01/2020 10:14:58 AM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be a liberal when one is dumber than a box of rocks...)
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To: marktwain

Polymer has made that possible.
I don’t particularly like plastic guns, but it makes possible $250-$500 guns everyone can afford.
Steel or alloy frames cost more.


18 posted on 03/01/2020 11:25:25 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yes, and advances in metallurgy and computer driven machining.


19 posted on 03/01/2020 11:35:20 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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