House Bill 5737 is authored by Senator Ed Murray(D) 43rd Legislative District and co-sponsored by Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D) 36th Legislative District.
This Bill will ban all semi-automatic pistols and rifles able to accept a detachable magazine AND requires relinquishing those firearms to law enforcement. If you do NOT want to relinquish said “assault weapon” you are legally required to register the weapon and allow the Sheriff to inspect the storage of said weapon at least once a year.
Part of this new Bill includes:
(2) No person in this state shall possess or have under his or her control at one time both of the following:
(a) A semiautomatic or pump-action rifle, semiautomatic pistol, or shotgun capable of accepting a detachable magazine; and
(b) Any magazine capable of use with that firearm that contains more than ten rounds of ammunition.
(5) In order to continue to possess an assault weapon that was legally possessed on the effective date of this section, the person possessing the assault weapon shall do all of the following:
(a) Safely and securely store the assault weapon. The sheriff of the county may, no more than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance with this subsection;
As defined, “assault weapon” also includes any semiautomatic with a fixed magazine capacity of more than 10 rounds, any firearm with a threaded barrel, shotguns with detachable magazines or revolving cylinders, and assault weapon conversion kits.
And when you die your beneficiaries must either render the weapon inoperable, destroy it or relinquish it. There will be no method or process to pass these commonly owned firearms down to your children or heirs.
Read the complete bill here:
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2013-14/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5737.pdf
Contact your legislators today to register your displeasure with them even considering a bill such as this.
Tags: 2nd Amendment, Firearm ban, Washington State Legislature
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This is a clear indication that many Legislators in Olympia have NO regard for the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, the Washington State Constitution, and individual rights.
This HB 5737 is WRONG on so many levels.
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This is just a bill by the lunatics of the lefty “liberal” loony lunatic losers…
I’m not worried about this giggle-fest proposed by ignorant ignoble ingrates who will never truly understand that gay rights is because some very brave people picked up a gun and strapped it to them so that we could have the freedom to vote for “gay marriage”.
I am just getting warmed up for the 7 AM Sunday editorial…
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Voting rights have their own unique history. While the suffragette movement, from what I know of it, was generally effected peaceably, modern-day gay rights and gay marriage has a recent history that is closely connected to violence generated by citizens to oppose perceived abuses upon those citizens by both the Government and the police: the 1969 Stonewall Riots in NYC being a prime example that violent history.
Stonewall riots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
Those who would fantasize that the POTENTIAL to stand up to overzealous Government abuse of power is NOT relevant to the issue of firearms rights (e.g. as provided for unabated in both the US 2nd Amendment and the WA State Constitution) are completely fooling themselves. It is 100% relevant and important to preserve these rights unabated- irregardless of where one’s political views lie.
I do not all perceive ANYTHING which inhibits these rights for law-abiding citizens to be a “giggle-fest “.
Your decidedly liberal views on this topic are coming through loud and clear, no matter how hard you try to mask them.
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No, BillB, I’m giggling at the loons who think they can confiscate the guns.
That’s not going to work. America is NOT Australia and Barack Obama is 1,001 times more contemptible than John Howard.
What will is universal background checks, increased moral support for responsible gun owners who defend property & family, and HIGHER penalties for gun-toting felons.
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“I’m not worried about this giggle-fest proposed by ignorant ignoble ingrates ”
Only liberals would truly not be seriously concerned (as you have clearly stated above to be your position) about proposed legislation that DOES seek to make us MUCH MORE LIKE places like Australia in this regard by doing things like banning semi-automatic weapons.
The fact that such liberal-thinking legislators (at the state level and the national level) is NOT a “giggle-fest”.
No, Joe, the more you defend your statements, the more of a liberal lefty on this issue do you emerge to be.
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Bill,
I’m not concerned about a bill introduced by a few lefties who just want to make noise. It’s just something placed to placate an ignorant few – no way the Senate Majority Coalition is going to let it get to the Rules Committee, much less to the State Senate Floor. That’s why the laughter.
I’m PRO semi-automatic weapons, one saved my family’s life several years ago.-
Your willful ignorance about the seriousness of such proposed legislation in WA State is simply more proof of your liberal leanings.
Remember Colorado, that ‘other” liberal-thinking state that just also legalized recreational marijuana?
“Gun restrictions pass first test in Colorado House”
http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_22602748An excerpt:
“After an epic debate, Colorado Democrats advanced stricter gun-control measures Friday, ensuring that the state will be held up as an example in a national fight over tougher firearm laws.
All four bills passed out of committee this week on party-line votes, after hundreds of gun-rights advocates asked that the measures be killed and the victims of gun violence asked that they be approved.”
The “It can’t happen here” mantra is a fool’s mantra.
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Okay, I concede.
You gotcha a Growler Joe.
Nice work. Now I’m concerned.
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Universal background checks are a bad joke. Unless every single gun is registered, they are useless. Unless criminals do them too, they are useless. All they do is inconvenience people, cost them time and money, and increase the cost of guns. They also increase the amount of bureaucracy and lower the bar of freedom.
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There are three new bills in Olympia today. They are 5737, 1588, and 1676. I have tried to look at the summary on all three. It looks to me like there are very strange people down south who are not thinking right. I just got back Thursday late from 3 days in Olympia and I feel very good about the way our Senator and two Representatives feel about any action that deals with the 2nd Amendment. They are on the correct side of these. All of you, to give them encouragement, should send a messages to them.
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“there are very strange people down south who are not thinking right”
Boy have you got that right. I can’t imagine any scenario where it is acceptable for “The sheriff of the county may, no more than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance with this subsection;”
So to excercise my 2nd Amendment Rights I have to allow a sherriff into my home to perform an “inspection” to “ensure compliance” yearly.
It really does make you wonder just what our politicians are thinking on this one and how they figure this is Constitutional under either our State Constitution or the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
This is why we cannot let our guard down, if we do we will see ridiculous laws like this passed that will take years to make it to the SCOTUS to be overturned. During that time we could see legal lawful and Constitutionally protected firearm owners prosecuted and imprisoned for breaking these illegal laws. It is amazing that they are even considering legislation that will make criminals out of legal and lawful firearm owners while doing nothing to actually solve the problems of violence in our society.
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Don’t count on SCOTUS to overturn anything! They’ll just chalk it up to bad policy like OBUTTMACare and leave it at that. After all the “government” can force you to do, and buy anything!
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Anyone who tells you that the Democrats are NOT aiming to ban or confiscate firearms or to conduct searches of private residences WITHOUT a warrant need to conduct a SERIOUS reality check of the REAL world around them, because that is EXACTLY what this legislation aims to do.
The fact that some actual, real-world Democrat Party elected officials DID THIS speaks for itself.
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I can really see long lines and criminals eager to sign up for this one.
Along with defeat I can only hope that this bill serve to alienate these radicals even more.
Anyone remember the MADD campaign for mandatory divorce?
MADD suggests a “mandatory provision in every separation agreement divorce decree that prohibits either parent from drinking and driving . . . with children under the age of 16 in the vehicle.” Instead of just prohibiting drunk driving with children in the car, MADD has endorsed that parents who have a glass of wine with dinner or a beer at a ballgame should potentially lose custody of their children.
MADD’s position seeks to marginalize and eventually criminalize drinking and driving. One bad policy at a time, the organization aims to push responsible alcohol consumption to the fringes of society.
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If this actually passed, how much money will be appropriated for county sheriffs to carry out these inspections or will the citizen get nicked for an inspection fee? “Stupid is as stupid does.” Stupid also is, as Olympia does!
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That would most likely be an unfunded mandate. For the socialists suddenly Swan Lake and the beach watchers would be come less important and the Sheriff’s dept. would become fully funded, and then some, to root out all of the illegal gun owners.
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Evidently even the liberal Dems dont think this will pass now. The part about the sheriff coming to your house without a warrant to inspect your guns once a year is obviously unconstitutional. One Sen. Adam Kline said he made a mistake because he didnt read it well before signing it. Sad, but this happens way too often that these asses sign and vote for bills that they haven’t read. VOTE THE BUMS OUT! We must go on an active campaign and let them know that any lawmaker that votes to take away our GOD given rights will be targeted to be voted out of office.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020373291_westneat17xml.html
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Some “mistake.” This has been entered twice before with the same clause in place. Their mistake was that they got caught. The mistake I hope the people don’t make is to reelect them. We simply MUST take the gloves off.
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