D.W. Drang
Member
As usual, edited only for formatting.
GOAL Post 2003-3
GOAL Chairman: Bruce Turner GOAL Legislative Liaison: Joe Waldron
Legislative Update from Olympia 31 January 2003
SB 5083 (CPL RECIPROCITY) PASSES COMMITTEE
NO NEW GUN BILLS FILED
NO HEARINGS SCHEDULED ON GUN BILLS IN WEEK 3
A public hearing on SB 5083 (CPL reciprocity) was held on 30 January. Washington Ceasefire’s new executive director, Laura Lockard, testified with “concerns.†With no direct opposition, Chairman McCaslin brought the bill up for passage in the Friday committee meeting. SB 5083 passed out of committee on a 8-1 vote! The bill now goes to Senate Rules to await a pull to the floor for full Senate consideration. This is the time to call your Senator and ask him or her to support SB 5083.
No additional gun bills have been filed this week, pro or con. The session is still very young, and there is ample time for bills to be
filed and work their way through the process. Of the five gun bills still in their primary committee, none are scheduled for a public hearing during the week of 3 February.
Senator Debbie Regala (D-27) is working on a bill to require gun shops to have theft sensors attached to all firearms. While she has not filed the bill at this time, we can expect it soon. Unfortunately, this kind of expensive, one-size-fits-all approach will hurt smaller gun shops where the cost of such a system would be prohibitive. In typical legislative fashion, this bill is being driven by a single, isolated incident: the theft of a Bushmaster AR-15 clone from Bull’s Eye Gun Shop in Tacoma. In fact, at this point it is not even known how the rifle was stolen; it may have been an “inside†job by employee(s) where no detection system would prevent such a theft.
BILL STATUS:
Bill # Subject Sponsor Status
SB 5083 CPL Reciprocity Stevens (R-39) S.Rules
SB 5315 Ballistic imaging Kohl-Welles (D-36) S.Jud.
SB 5316 Gun show regulation Kohl-Welles (D-36) S.Jud.
SB 5317 Safe storage of firearms Kohl-Welles (D-36) S.Jud.
HB 1319 Lawsuit protection Delvin (R- ) H. Jud.
HB 1321 Gun show regulation Kagi (D-32) H. Jud.
Key to abbreviations: S. = Senate, H. = House, Jud = Judiciary, CJ&J = Criminal Justice & Corrections, JuvJust = Juvenile Justice, Educ = Education, NatRes = Natural Resources, Parks & Shorelines; W&M = Ways and Means
PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED:
None.
REMINDER: Firearms are NOT permitted on the Capitol Campus, even with a CPL.
LEGISLATIVE HOT LINE: You may reach your Representatives and Senator by calling the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-562-6000. Toll free!!! The hearing impaired may obtain TDD access at 1-800-635-9993. Also toll free!!!
1-800-562-6000 TDD 1-800-635-9993
OTHER DATA: Copies of pending legislation (bills), legislative
schedules and other information are available on the legislature's web site at "www.leg.wa.gov". It's available in two versions: text (.txt) file or Acrobat (.pdf) file. The "Acrobat" version is preferred as it is easier to read and is an exact copy of the hard copy format the legislators use. You may download a free version of Adobe Acrobat from Adobe's web site. You may also obtain hard copy bills, initiatives, etc, in the mail from the Legislative Bill Room FREE OF CHARGE by calling 1-360-786-7573.
Copies of bills may also be ordered toll free by calling the
Legislative Hotline at (800) 562-6000. You may also hear floor and committee hearing action live at http://www.tvw.org/ (you need "RealAudio" to do this, available free at the TVW web site).
By reading the House and Senate "bill reports" (hbr, sbr) for each
bill, you can see how individual committee members voted. By reading the "roll call" for each bill, you can see how the entire House or Senate voted on any bill. The beauty of the web site is that ALL this information is available, on line, to any citizen.
GET THE WORD OUT: If you want to subscribe to the Goal Post by e-mail, send a message to "[email protected]". Please pass Goal Post on to anyone you believe may have an interest in protecting our rights. Better yet, make a couple of copies of this message, post it on your gun club’s bulletin board, and leave copies with your local gun shop(s).
PERMISSION IS HEREBY GRANTED TO DUPLICATE OR REDISTRIBUTE GOAL POST PROVIDED IT IS REPRODUCED IN ITS ENTIRETY WITHOUT TEXTUAL MODIFICATION AND CREDIT IS
GIVEN TO GOAL. I can be reached at "[email protected]" or (during session) by telephone at (425) 454-4911. Unfortunately, I am unable to mail hard copy Goal Post to individuals. Limited numbers of hard copies MAY be available at WAC gun shows.
Upcoming WAC gun show(s):
Monroe 15-16 February
Monroe 15-16 March
Puyallup 22-23 March
"The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of
himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men."
Article 1, Section 24
Constitution of the State of Washington
Copyright 2003 Gun Owners Action League of WA
GOAL Post 2003-3
GOAL Chairman: Bruce Turner GOAL Legislative Liaison: Joe Waldron
Legislative Update from Olympia 31 January 2003
SB 5083 (CPL RECIPROCITY) PASSES COMMITTEE
NO NEW GUN BILLS FILED
NO HEARINGS SCHEDULED ON GUN BILLS IN WEEK 3
A public hearing on SB 5083 (CPL reciprocity) was held on 30 January. Washington Ceasefire’s new executive director, Laura Lockard, testified with “concerns.†With no direct opposition, Chairman McCaslin brought the bill up for passage in the Friday committee meeting. SB 5083 passed out of committee on a 8-1 vote! The bill now goes to Senate Rules to await a pull to the floor for full Senate consideration. This is the time to call your Senator and ask him or her to support SB 5083.
No additional gun bills have been filed this week, pro or con. The session is still very young, and there is ample time for bills to be
filed and work their way through the process. Of the five gun bills still in their primary committee, none are scheduled for a public hearing during the week of 3 February.
Senator Debbie Regala (D-27) is working on a bill to require gun shops to have theft sensors attached to all firearms. While she has not filed the bill at this time, we can expect it soon. Unfortunately, this kind of expensive, one-size-fits-all approach will hurt smaller gun shops where the cost of such a system would be prohibitive. In typical legislative fashion, this bill is being driven by a single, isolated incident: the theft of a Bushmaster AR-15 clone from Bull’s Eye Gun Shop in Tacoma. In fact, at this point it is not even known how the rifle was stolen; it may have been an “inside†job by employee(s) where no detection system would prevent such a theft.
BILL STATUS:
Bill # Subject Sponsor Status
SB 5083 CPL Reciprocity Stevens (R-39) S.Rules
SB 5315 Ballistic imaging Kohl-Welles (D-36) S.Jud.
SB 5316 Gun show regulation Kohl-Welles (D-36) S.Jud.
SB 5317 Safe storage of firearms Kohl-Welles (D-36) S.Jud.
HB 1319 Lawsuit protection Delvin (R- ) H. Jud.
HB 1321 Gun show regulation Kagi (D-32) H. Jud.
Key to abbreviations: S. = Senate, H. = House, Jud = Judiciary, CJ&J = Criminal Justice & Corrections, JuvJust = Juvenile Justice, Educ = Education, NatRes = Natural Resources, Parks & Shorelines; W&M = Ways and Means
PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED:
None.
REMINDER: Firearms are NOT permitted on the Capitol Campus, even with a CPL.
LEGISLATIVE HOT LINE: You may reach your Representatives and Senator by calling the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-562-6000. Toll free!!! The hearing impaired may obtain TDD access at 1-800-635-9993. Also toll free!!!
1-800-562-6000 TDD 1-800-635-9993
OTHER DATA: Copies of pending legislation (bills), legislative
schedules and other information are available on the legislature's web site at "www.leg.wa.gov". It's available in two versions: text (.txt) file or Acrobat (.pdf) file. The "Acrobat" version is preferred as it is easier to read and is an exact copy of the hard copy format the legislators use. You may download a free version of Adobe Acrobat from Adobe's web site. You may also obtain hard copy bills, initiatives, etc, in the mail from the Legislative Bill Room FREE OF CHARGE by calling 1-360-786-7573.
Copies of bills may also be ordered toll free by calling the
Legislative Hotline at (800) 562-6000. You may also hear floor and committee hearing action live at http://www.tvw.org/ (you need "RealAudio" to do this, available free at the TVW web site).
By reading the House and Senate "bill reports" (hbr, sbr) for each
bill, you can see how individual committee members voted. By reading the "roll call" for each bill, you can see how the entire House or Senate voted on any bill. The beauty of the web site is that ALL this information is available, on line, to any citizen.
GET THE WORD OUT: If you want to subscribe to the Goal Post by e-mail, send a message to "[email protected]". Please pass Goal Post on to anyone you believe may have an interest in protecting our rights. Better yet, make a couple of copies of this message, post it on your gun club’s bulletin board, and leave copies with your local gun shop(s).
PERMISSION IS HEREBY GRANTED TO DUPLICATE OR REDISTRIBUTE GOAL POST PROVIDED IT IS REPRODUCED IN ITS ENTIRETY WITHOUT TEXTUAL MODIFICATION AND CREDIT IS
GIVEN TO GOAL. I can be reached at "[email protected]" or (during session) by telephone at (425) 454-4911. Unfortunately, I am unable to mail hard copy Goal Post to individuals. Limited numbers of hard copies MAY be available at WAC gun shows.
Upcoming WAC gun show(s):
Monroe 15-16 February
Monroe 15-16 March
Puyallup 22-23 March
"The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of
himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men."
Article 1, Section 24
Constitution of the State of Washington
Copyright 2003 Gun Owners Action League of WA