Posted on 12/15/2014 10:45:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Fed up with the passage of an 18½-page incoherent, rambling, unconstitutional gun control initiative that was bankrolled by billionaires, gun owners across Washington state held the largest felony civil disobedience rally in the nation’s history, brazenly titled “I Will Not Comply.” No one was hurt and no stores were looted. Between 1,000 and 3,000 lawful gun owners showed up openly armed at the state capitol in Olympia, Wash., on Saturday to defy the newly passed gun control law, I-594.
Organizer Gavin Seim made the extraordinary nature of the rally very clear, "This isn’t just a protest. We are here to openly violate the law." Attendees publicly transferred their guns to each other in violation of I-591’s background check provisions, and some even bought and sold guns just a few feet away from law enforcement. A fire pit blazed throughout the rally, and at the conclusion, gun owners lined up to burn their concealed weapons permits. A petition was circulated affirming gun owners’ refusal to follow I-594, which ended with, “We pledge our blood. We will not comply.”
As the RSVPs in advance of the rally grew to over 6,000, the police - most who probably detest I-594 - decided not to enforce the law. The Washington State Patrol announced there would be no arrests for exchanging guns - not even for selling guns. Seim refused to obtain a permit to hold the rally, citing the right of people to peaceably assemble.
The rally could not be dismissed as fringe elements. Several lawmakers and lawmen spoke, including former Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack of Arizona, Washington State Rep. Elizabeth Scott (R-Monroe) and Rep. Graham Hunt (R-Orting), who sported an AR-15 during his speech. Mack advised gun owners engaging in civil disobedience to “put your sheriff next to you to keep it peaceful.” Scott defiantly explained in her speech, “I will not comply with I-594 because it is unconstitutional, unenforceable and unjust. It is impossible to enforce this law unless there is a police officer on every back porch and in every living room. So it will be enforced selectively.” She noted that Founding Father Alexander Hamilton said any law that violates the Constitution is not valid, and there is a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws.
Seim, a political activist and congressional candidate, wrote on his website, “Today I become an OUTLAW! Arrest me! I will NOT comply.” He led the rally peacefully, and at one point asked everyone attending to kneel with him in prayer. As he led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, he stressed, “I am not pledging obedience to the government, it is to the Republic. We don’t ask for our rights, and we don’t negotiate for our rights. We will take America back.”
Another speaker explained what was happening this way, “We no longer consent nor comply.” Mike Vanderboegh, whose Three Percenter movement is modeled after the three percent of the colonists who fought in the American War of Independence, said that those at the rally are the resistance behind enemy lines. The resistance is also taking place in a handful of other states with strict gun control laws, where patriots are now smuggling in weapons illegally. Vanderboegh told attendees, “This is the tyranny the Founding Fathers warned us about. Tyranny can be voted into existence by a majority. We will not fire the first shot, but if need be, we will fire the last.”
Gun control zealots have finally gone too far. Gun owners are now discovering that the police in New York are using gun control laws to confiscate guns from family members within days after their owners pass away. Hundreds of thousands of gun owners in Connecticut and New York who failed to register their AR-15s earlier this year are now felons. Requiring the registration of guns or requiring background checks, as I-594 does, allows the government to compile a list of gun owners, which can be used later for confiscation.
If guns cause crime, then why wasn’t there a single mishap, considering there were 1,000 or so guns present and hundreds of violations of felony law taking place? Tellingly, Washington State Trooper Guy Gill predicted beforehand, “"Most of these folks are responsible gun owners. We probably will not have an issue." The truth is, the state capitol was probably the safest place in the state last Saturday.
Patriots have had enough. The Second Amendment is gradually being eroded, state by state, and gun owners are not going to lie down and give up their arms. A handful of billionaires and elitists in blue cities like Seattle do not respect the Constitution nor represent the vast majority of Americans. Another rally in Olympia is planned for January 15, and another one in Spokane on December 20. The Second Amendment Foundation, headquartered in Bellevue, intends to sue the state over I-594, and will be lobbying the legislature to get the law changed or repealed. Washington state is now ground zero for patriotic gun owners resisting tyranny, which is at a tipping point since law enforcement does not intend to enforce I-594. What happens next?
No, the transfer of firearms between private citizens DOES NOT and NEVER HAS required a background check.
It’s a 120 mile drive for me to get to Olympia, fighting Seattle and Tacoma traffic, so I stayed home. I’d like to see rallies held in front of all the 39 county courthouses on Jan. 15th, not just Olympia. I’d bet a lot more would turn out.
How about it, Washingtonians?
How do you expect to make the evening news if you refuse to loot stores and hurt people?
According to more than just a few “conservatives,” they should have been “eric garnered.” After all, “a law is a law.”
Ah yes, the New York police, those ever vigilant protectors of individual freedom.
As I understand it, at prior Washington State gun shows, there were plenty of private parties selling firearms from their own collection from tables inside the events, incidentally to their hobby, not as a business.
Not correct.
Private transfers do not require a background check - except, apparently, in Washington State.
This is a Washington State law, though.
How can you carry a weapon when it is locked up?
Ya, outstanding. This is only the first ‘shot’. You can bet the police will follow up. Im interested to see how that plays out.
“Transfers” must now go through a Federally Licensed Dealer, and background check performed.
So, if I hand my gun to a friend in the woods, we’re both felons.
It got to be basically back door gun control. Businesses, manufacturing facilites, Southern Co., Bowwater, Hospitals, etc. would prohibit firearms on their property. If you were working there then you were basically disarmed as you couldn’t park your car on their property if you had a weapon in the car. The law say’s that they cannot prohibit the weapon in the car as long as it was out of sight and the car was locked.
You would be correct, but that is done at every gun show I have attended. We have one of the largest here in Indianapolis with plenty of "private collections." Some of those people are selling personal weapons but many are skirting the law by buying and selling guns for profit. I know one seller was arrested after several convention appearances caught the attention of the ATF.
Selling without a FFL Type 1 license is difficult to prove by the ATF so many people roll the dice because they won't be the one that gets caught.
But every FFL runs a background check or they won't be in business for very long. The ATF does periodically check the books.
“Private transfers do not require a background check - except, apparently, in Washington State.”
You can add California, New York, Connecticut, and the rest of the nanny states to that list.
Over 1000 people protesting?
OMG! Board up your stores! Call the national guard!
Where’s Jesse and them?
Let the police have overtime pay. OMG Another Ferguson again!
huh? What? mostly white people? Oooh, nevermind, they will not hurt anything. They will not loot or steal or burn down their own stores. They are civilized humans, false alarm.
“Hands up. I can’t breathe! Don’t shoot.”
Screw those drama queens.
Exhale, just before heartbeat, gently squeeze trigger.
No ones going to know about it or care about it or prosecute it and the sheriffs have said as much.
ones=one’s contraction
Until you offend the powers that be, and then it is a felony available to use against any gun owner for selective prosecution / persecution.
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