Washington State AG Proposes Semi Automatic Rifle And Standard Capacity Magazine Ban
Here we go.
Please spread this far and wide,
There is a video at the link I can't embed but you have seen the same scenario before, the tearful parents asking why anyone needs an assault weapon, the AG saying he is going to "Do Something" but no freaking specifics, yadda yadda yadda. According to the video they are targeting the AR 15 specifically but that will expand as sure as I am sitting here.
Anything that has Evil Black Rifle written on it will be banned because these people can't be bothered to educate themselves.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson is proposing a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Ferguson, joined by a broad coalition of over 50 community leaders and elected officials, announced on Wednesday that he will submit agency request legislation in the 2017 session.
A ban on semiautomatic weapons with military-style features that render them more easily concealable or more deadly; and
A limit on magazine capacity — currently unlimited under Washington law — to a maximum of 10 rounds of ammunition.
Ferguson’s proposed legislation has two key elements:
Ferguson’s proposal targets only sales, grandfathering current gun ownership. The legislation would not require registration of existing weapons. The proposal will be modeled after successful assault weapon laws in other states, such as New York and Connecticut. The courts have determined these states’ bans to be constitutional. KIRO 7 asked Ferguson’s office what specific features would be banned under this law. A representative said that the details would be worked out during the legislative process. Diana Pinto, the owner of Pinto’s Gun Shop, said assault weapons may be getting banned for the wrong reasons. “They look bad, they look scary. And so that’s what they kind of hone in on, when they don’t realize that again, there’s a lot of firearms out there that maybe don’t look as scary, but they’re just as deadly. They can have as many rounds,” she said. Pinto would rather see a focus on preventing those who are mentally ill from possessing any guns at all. “If they can’t get an assault weapon, they would probably get something else, which is horrible. But stop that person from getting something – not just limiting access to one avenue,” Pinto said. During the 90s, there was a national ban on assault weapons as well as a limit to 10 rounds of ammunition. Pinto said she felt that ban did not have a significantly positive effect.
Sen. David Frockt (D-46) and Sen. Kevin Ranker (D-40) are working with Ferguson to craft the legislation. A recent poll presented by Washington Ceasefire and Ceasefire Oregon showed that 65 percent of adults in the two states — including a great many gun owners — favor an assault weapons ban and want lawmakers to act.
The federal government’s definition of an assault weapon is defined as a semiautomatic firearm with the ability to accept a detachable magazine and two or more of the following:
A folding telescoping stock
A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon
A bayonet mount
A flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor
A grenade launcher
"A recent poll"...
Right.
You have to know those demographics were cherry picked.
The game is on here now.
It is time to get your hands on as much equipment as you can before these people have their way.
There is going to be big money spent on this by the gun grabbers and after the last anti gun law that had Bloomberg and his ilk paying for the media blitz I have no doubts this will pass too.
The Puget Sound area is San Francisco North now and has more say in what happens in this state than the other three quarters of it combined.
Spread the word!
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Anonymous
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oh lets return to bombs, poisons, auto shotguns, ectra
And in the dark, dank halls of the Oregon legislature the minions of the collective rubbed their hands together. Chortling gleefully, they began salivating over the possibility of emulating their sister coven to the North.
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oh lets return to bombs, poisons, auto shotguns, ectra
Wildflower
Passed on your link to Kit at the White Rose, hopefully she can counter this, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
And in the dark, dank halls of the Oregon legislature the minions of the collective rubbed their hands together. Chortling gleefully, they began salivating over the possibility of emulating their sister coven to the North.
And you live in Washington, yes?
Bob
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