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Posted on 01/09/2017 4:01:59 PM PST by PROCON
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson apparently wants the Evergreen State to have gun laws similar to those in New York and Connecticut, according to the Yakima Herald, as he released details on bills to ban so-called “assault weapons” and require “enhanced” background checks for the purchase of such guns.
The measures may be read here and here.
“I believe a ban on the sale of assault weapons is the right policy for Washington, and I will keep fighting for that,” Ferguson said in a prepared statement, “I’ve said from the beginning that it would be an uphill battle. My alternative represents meaningful reform that will enhance public safety now.”
The bills are being sponsored by anti-gun Democrats in both the House and Senate. Senators David Frockt (D-Seattle) is sponsoring both bills in the Senate and Reps. Strom Peterson (D-Edmonds) and Laurie Jinkins (D-Tacoma) are each sponsoring one of the companion bills in the House.
One measure calls for a ban on assault weapons and magazines that hold more than ten cartridges, while a second bill would set a minimum age of 21 years to purchase a so-called “assault weapon” and require a license “to possess, manufacture, transport, purchase, distribute, import, sell, or offer to sell an assault weapon or large capacity magazine” in the state. To obtain the license, one must show proof of completion of a firearms safety course and “A full description of the safe gun storage the applicant will use to store the assault weapon when the assault weapon is not in their immediate possession and when the assault weapon is being transported …”
Ferguson predicted that the outright ban will face a tough fight in the Legislature, which opened Monday. However, many activists believe that these bills are merely designed to provide a political launch pad for a citizen initiative later this year or in 2018, coinciding with the mid-term elections in order to bring liberal anti-gun voters to the polls.
Both measures will face stiff opposition from gun owners who know that semi-auto firearms targeted by the legislation are involved in a fraction of homicides in Washington. According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2015 – the most recent year for which data is available – rifles of any kind were identifiably involved in only three of the state’s 141 firearms-related murders.
The bill calling for an outright ban includes some handguns and rimfire rifles. Under that legislation the definitions of an “assault weapon” include:
A semiautomatic pistol, or a semiautomatic, centerfire, or rimfire rifle with a fixed magazine, that has the capacity to accept more than ten rounds of ammunition; (c) A semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and has one or more of the following: (i) Any feature capable of functioning as a protruding grip that can be held by the nontrigger hand; (ii) A threaded barrel, capable of accepting a flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or silencer; (iii) A shroud attached to the barrel, or that partially or completely encircles the barrel, allowing the bearer to hold the firearm with the nontrigger hand without being burned, but excluding a slide that encloses the barrel; or (iv) The capacity to accept a detachable magazine at any location outside of the pistol grip…
This legislation would effectively require a license to possess any AR or similar semi-auto type platform AND and any semi-auto handgun which has the "capacity" of accepting more than a 10 round magazine. (As in a Glock 17 or 19).
Passing anti-Constitutional gun control measures in Washington State has been going quite well for the gun grabbers lately.
Even though it should, if passed, be eventually found to be unconstitutional in the courts, this legislation will be fiercely opposed by the NRA and the SAF, (Second Amendment Foundation).
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Sorry to those still there but just one more Happy Dance that we left a few years ago.
I bought my first handgun in Bremerton, Washington in 1971. It was a S&W .38 Chiefs Special. I walked into the gun store, picked out the gun, paid $150 and walked out a gun owner.
But that was in 1971.
He must be stopped.
Thanks - will look at these later. So many people I know are liberal in their politics but still hunt. The anti-gun rhetoric never comes up in our elections except what little I can tell them. Of course once they are elected - THEN they can go after them, with the backing of Bloomberg and Bill Gates, etc.
This is why I am shopping for Montana property for retirement....gotta make it another 12-15 yrs.
Most of these types of bills don’t pass in the legislature here in Washington state. HOWEVER, they can make the news and get some press, and then Bloomberg and Gates will push for it to be put on as a Referendum and put forth to the public (e.g. the “mob”) where crap like this does pass due to the ignorant sheeple.
A couple of years ago we had the referendum to ban gun transfers - which was hyped as a way to keep felons from buying guns from private sales. Actually, in the 18-page law, it bans the “transfer” of guns - I can’t even let my grown son shoot my shotgun at the range!
Thankfully all of us here in Washington State are law abiding citizens - nobody in two years has been arrested yet due to violation of this 18 page law. (That - or it is impossible to enforce!) Although I have heard that some gunsmiths won’t take new customers. (Giving your gun to the gunsmith entails a “transfer” - and then back again of course).
The Sheriffs here in E. Washington have ignored those 2 referendums. Complete lunacy.
Start by banning black spray paint, which makes these guns look really scary and EVIL.
Democrats don’t want you to have a firearm suitable to resist their tyrannical plans.
Sad thing is there are a lot of Elmer Fudds who agree with him or don’t care.
We fight to keep our evil black modern sporting rifles and handguns, which also protects their shotguns and bolt actions but many Fudds stay on the sidelines, apparently not caring that the gun grabbers will just eat them last.
Let’s hope Trump gets to appoint enough pro-2A jurists to overturn these unconstitutional laws.
Part of my “safe gun storage” at home is a GLOCK 26 on my hip and an AR next to my desk in the study. Both go to the bedroom at night.
“I believe a ban on the sale of assault weapons is the right policy for Washington, and I will keep fighting for that,” Ferguson said in a prepared statement...
Based on the descriptive details, this clown’s definition of ‘assault weapon’ includes a whole lot more than previous attempts at this type of legislation...
But, it appears my 1911A1’s would miss the cut; max 8 rounds in my Shooting Star mags.
Time to roll WA, OR and CA into one big libtard utopia and get them the hell out of the USA. I’d give up a coast to get rid of this happy crap.
No, I’m a Washingtonian on the sane side of the state, we’re going to fight this unconstitutional crap.
I can’t even let my grown son shoot my shotgun at the range!
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(Giving your gun to the gunsmith entails a “transfer” - and then back again of course).
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I thought the bill allowed transfers at “Registered Ranges” (whatever those are).
Can a gunsmith “Register” as a “Range”
Hmmm. Can I register my kitchen stove (a range)?
I know. This is all sickening cr*p.
Move fast!
The state is being taken over by rich rich liberals who are buying 100's of acres and locking them up from all but grasshoppers and gophers.
WY may be a better bet.
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