Well, I'm glad you are happy but it doesn't seem so good to me! If somebody told you that you had to make a one time payment of $75 or so and you could enjoy those other things, wouldn't that be worth it? Just the three day wait for a handgun would make me wild and be well worth a little extra money one time. I typically buy 3-4 handguns a year and have for a long time.
And most real livestock ranchers carry some kind of loaded rifle in their trucks. Might just be a .22 or might be a Mini 14. I wouldn't _want_ to give that one up either but the three day wait is worse!
I've never lived in WA but my expectation is that it suffers from the same fate of some other states that have one super large metro area. A lot of really nice rural areas and real potential. But the politics are totally skewed for that large metro area. That's the way Missouri is with St. Louis and Kansas City. And Illinois with Chicago. In Oklahoma we have two large metro areas but they don't have the political clout to totally dominate the rural areas of the state. And since the politics of the two cities is somewhat dissimilar, they can't usually unite in their efforts anyway!
Gregg