Bill to Allow Gun Destruction Advances in Washington State

AmmoLand ^ | 25 February, 2020 | Dean Weingarten

[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

[marktwain]

Destroying valuable property is not rational.

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

[headstamp 2]

This is to compliment the red flag law no doubt.

Confiscate and destroy immediately.

[coloradan]

“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.”

[Yosemitest]

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:

The Second Amendment IS Pro-Life.

"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these:
First, a right to life;
Secondly, to liberty;
Thirdly, to property;
together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation,
commonly called the first law of nature...
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,
to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights;
when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution,
is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights;
the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right,
the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation.
The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty,
it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift
and voluntarily become a slave."




-- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists

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.

[Clutch Martin]

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...

[ronnie raygun]

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

[hardspunned]

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/

[RubinBoomer]

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.

[Carriage Hill]

“Destroying valuable property is not rational.”

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

[wally_bert]

Destruction of valuable resources always sickens me.

[real saxophonist]

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

[real saxophonist]

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

[libertylover]

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.

[jeffersondem]

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.

[marktwain]

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

[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.

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.

[lgjhn23]

“...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.

[Lurkinanloomin]

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.

[marktwain]

Yes, and advances in metallurgy and computer driven machining.