From what I’ve read about it both from the text and articles, it seems like a huge portion of this is just a giant multi billion dollar slush fund. I’m willing to bet only a very small percentage of that actually goes from what they say it will.
That’s what I got out of it from the article yesterday - dollar amounts of funding towards things. I didn’t realize that that stuff can get added in with the law stuff.
And their are new laws and changes to existing laws in this bill (or at least the draft bill that I downloaded).
I forget the number, but they say the average person breaks a large number of laws every day. The wording in this bill will no doubt add many more of them.
When the State of Washington a few years ago passed their law about requiring a FFL form to buy or sell a weapon it was sold as a very “common-sense” gun law. It was as a ballot item and voted in by mob rule - otherwise known as democracy.
This “common-sense” gun law has 30 pages of text. It is not just about the sales of firearms between private citizens - it uses the term “transfer”. This new law actually outlaws a father handing down his rifle to his son without an FFL. It even outlaws the dad letting the adult son hold his rifle at the range, hunting, etc. The wife can use the husband’s gun if there is an “imminent threat”. However, the husband can’t leave his gun for her if he goes out of town for the weekend.
Anyway - as soon as I downloaded the pdf of the bill and saw 30 pages I knew it wouldn’t be good. I wonder how many people that voted for this bill looked at the law? 0.5%??? If that.
But yay! We are keeping guns out of the hands of bad guys because of this law.
(Not sure how to explain the huge increase in shooting incidences in the Seattle area though. Maybe the bad guys can’t read?)