Posted on 11/10/2014 9:13:44 AM PST by rktman
Some local gun owners are bracing for trouble after the passage of I-594. A few of them believe the government is out to take their guns and they are buying them like crazy.
Washington's newest firearm law passed with a 60 percent approval from voters but it is little comfort to some gun owners.
"I feel like this is just continuously progressing in a way to limit the amount of firearms that can be purchased by legal citizens," said gun owner Mark Jones.
(Excerpt) Read more at krem.com ...
next stop...confiscation
Im sure King Co LE is shining up their new toys in anticipation of some low speed high drag raids and ops.
The anti-gunners say that this won’t affect family gifting or loaning a friend a firearm for target shooting, but when have they ever told the truth?
Just remember that if anyone comes for your guns to aim for their heads.
Here’s the “Am I breaking the law” flow chart for I594. It’s a tricky little rascal. Notice the first diamond at the upper left of the chart. “Have you handed it to someone else?” Handing is now against the law. Maybe.
http://i.imgur.com/QLMj1Em.png
Most of the eastern Washington State Sheriff’s Departments are not going to be enforcing the prohibition against casual loaning outside a shooting range, as long as no other laws are broken.
But you can count on King County enforcing it.
The Spokane Gun Shows at the fairgounds will take it on the chin, but the CDA Gun Shows will grow exponentially.
Yep, but I make it over there about once every ten years at most anymore.
Doubt that. They know the guns will still be available when/if 594 takes effect. It's the anonymity that will be won't be.
It’s the anonymity that won’t be.
DOH!
Gifting to a close family member is okay.
Loaning to a family member is not okay, even if they are over 18 and you want them to try out your gun for a few shots at the shooting range.
Loaning to anyone is okay, as long as they are on a hunt with a legal license. Just don’t hand them your gun to try it out at the range first. First time offense is up to $10,000 fine and a year in jail. (Unless they are under 18 - then you are okay.)
Anyone under 18 (relative, friend or stranger); or your spouse are okay to let them use your gun, but only at an authorized range. Letting them shoot it at the old sand and gravel pit will be illegal.
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Most of the eastern Washington State Sheriff’s Departments are not going to be enforcing the prohibition against casual loaning outside a shooting range, as long as no other laws are broken.
And the cause of the passage of this legislation is one of the reasons I life my home of 45 years, Seattle, for a farm in rural KY. I can hunt deer on my own property out here and NONE of my guns are really anybody’s business.
I put up about 90 lbs of Deer meat last weekend, BTW, and I didn’t fire a shot. One of the local kids put up a dear stand by one of my streams and brought me the meat he harvested. He must know what he’s doing because I ate some of it as I was packing it and it tasted like beef.
That was my take. If you aren’t a dealer, and you are at the range just plinking and a friend asks to try your pistol, it looks like you could be hung out to dry under that law. A few more steps, though, and I’d challenge it for being ‘unconstitutionally vague’.
This is the kind of thing that happens 1,000 times every day over here and will continue to happen. Sheriff's only concern will be rounds going over the berm.
So....under I-594, if someone merely HANDS you a gun for whatever reason, you’re busted?
That’s entrapment. Every po-po in civvies with a belt badge will be at the local range asking, “Here, like to fire a few rounds out of this one?”
Followed by, “YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT!!!”
Scary......
Yes - enforcement will be an issue. As some other freeper said, it will be one of those things that will be used against you if you are targeted for something else.
Excuse my ignorance, but ‘if or when’?? Has the NRA or the like filed anything yet?
I mean, it’s not like the courts will side with anyone when it comes to ‘....shall not be infringed’ (or the ‘incorporation’ BS)
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