Customers Flooding Washington Gun Shops Prior to Magazine Ban

breitbart.com ^ | 6/17/2022 | AWR Hawkins

[rktman]

Customers are flooding into gun shops in Washington to acquire “high capacity” magazines prior to a July 1, 2022, state ban on the sale of such magazines.

On March 24, 2022, Breitbart News reported Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed the ban on magazines holding more than ten rounds.

Oregon Public Broadcasting reported the new magazine law will “[ban] the manufacture, import, distribution and sale of higher-capacity gun magazines.” However, the law always those who already possess “higher-capacity” magazines to keep them.

There is now a run on magazines holding more than ten rounds as those who own them prior to July 1, 2022, will be grandfathered in.

The Seattle Times notes “in-person and online sales of magazines have skyrocketed in recent months at Precise Shooter,” which is located in Woodinville.

Danny Borne, who owns Dan’s Firearms in Port Orchard, said, “There are millions of magazines brought into WA in anticipation of ban, at the end of the day there will be more magazines here than a decade worth of normal sales.”

KXLY points out that July 1, 2022, is also the day that “ghost guns and carrying a gun into a government building or school district meeting” becomes illegal in Washington state

[rktman]

"... the law always those who already possess “higher-capacity” magazines to keep them...." Until it says you can't. Butt "they" would never do that right? 😵‍💫🤬

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Just $17.00 dollars to 79%.

[bigfootbob]

Everyone I know bulked up. The gun stores have cases of magazines to almost meet demand…if you’re not too picky about the grade.

[Nifty]

PPL here in Florida have stocked up as well.

[rktman]

😂🙌

[SkyDancer]

Other than having forty or so magazines of sizes over 15rds I have friends in other states who’ll gladly send more if asked.

[21twelve]

Just like the ban on private sales of guns, the law is worded as banning “transfers”. Even letting your adult son use your hunting rifle on an elk hunt is illegal.

Same goes for “importing” a magazine from out of state. Obviously both are difficult/impossible to monitor, but it is illegal.

My question is, how many magazines is “enough”. One guy I know with a vast gun collection said “Yeah - I have 127 guns - I just need one more.....Trouble is, I always need just ‘one more’”.

[Organic Panic]

...And the blacks who shoot each other up with alarming regularity in the Central and South Seattle neighborhoods will be safer than ever.

[vladimir998]

Yeah, we know they would do that. That’s why I purchased some that would still be legal even if proposed legislation passed. The mags are cheap now. They won’t be then.

[Big Red Badger]

Remember ‘FREEDOM Week’ in California 4,5 years ago??
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20 Round Mag ban was lifted for a few days and it was
So Wild I can’t tell You!
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Smokem’ if ya Got’em!

[Boomer One]

Politicians continue to show their ignorance by passing such bans. If they would take the time to learn how long it takes to insert a new magazine they would realize magazine capacity is not the issue. Someone prepared to commit a mass shooting will have multiple loaded magazines in their possession. But banning an inanimate object sounds good and is so much easier than actually identifying and controlling those who are mentally unstable and likely to do harm.

[SkyDancer]

If a dad asked his son to hold his rifle while he climbed over a fence, according to the WA gun laws that’d be an illegal transfer of a fire arm. I guess you have to bring an FFL dealer with you if you went hunting or at the range.

[21twelve]

When the law first was in effect I wanted a gunsmith to take a quick look at a gun. He wouldn’t. Until another guy spoke up and vouched that I wasn’t a cop. I think they have figured out a way that one can give the gun to a gunsmith for repairs. Idiot laws.

[SkyDancer]

Yeah, can’t even give your gun to a repair shop without a transfer document.

[MPB]

With the recent SCOTUS rulings on not only the NY 2A issue, but today’s comments that affect recent decisions by the 9th district... I’m trying to figure out how that would impact the stupid new laws that go into effect here tomorrow (July 1)?

I don’t know what legal challenges have already been brought, and I’m certainly not aware of any TRO that would suspend enforcement of the new laws tomorrow, so it may be premature to think the SCOTUS ruling would have any immediate impact on us... but I thought the California mag ban had already worked up to the 9th district level and now they’re basically saying “nope, you need to review that”.

It gives me hope that there will be a reprieve... Not that it directly affects me because I stocked up well ahead of time (and kept receipts, just in case), but it’s more about what they’ll try next. That concerns me.

[rktman]

There will be a next time.

[MPB]

FYI, trawling through Youtube I found this from “Washington Gun Law” so it’s right on point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAdIM9L22zk

Haven’t watched it all yet, so hey, let’s react together. LOL