OilyPablo
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Assuming that 594 does pass.....
Maybe I'm being way too pessimistic but I have this fear that if I-594 becomes law it will KILL recreational shooting in WA state...
That is a goal for some.
Assuming that 594 does pass.....
Maybe I'm being way too pessimistic but I have this fear that if I-594 becomes law it will KILL recreational shooting in WA state...
Thanks for posting that!
That's great news. WA residents are doing awesome, keep it up!I've seen a lot more "No on 594" signs popping up lately. The "Yes 591/No 594" sticker suddenly appeared at campus in the last week. Four or five were on faculty cars. Even more telling, I've yet to see a single pro-594 sticker or sign around town.
myself on a local WA forum said:Forgot to mention in my previous post about I-594; under this proposed law, suppose your buddy comes over to visit. You pull your new gun out of the safe to show him, lock the slide back, check it's empty, and hand it to him. He says "I can't handle it, I-594 just passed" and hands it right back to you. Bam, you're both felons now.
When you handed it to him that was the first "transfer", a gross misdemeanor under I-594. When he handed it back that was the second "transfer", a felony under I-594.
To legally show him your new gun and let him handle it (forget shooting it, just handle it), the two of you have to head over to your friendly local 01 FFL, pay the $30 going rate for a transfer, fill out a 4473, wait for NICS to clear, and pay the 9.3% WA usage tax. Now your buddy can handle your gun. To legally get your gun back, repeat (yes, pay $30 + the usage tax, fill out another 4473, call NICS right back, all of it).
Note: I failed to clarify in my first post, when I say "transfer" I'm talking in the I-594 sense. When I say transfer (no quotes) I'm talking in the 1968 GCA sense, the 1968 GCA being the big Federal law that governs everything from dealer licensing to sales to records that are kept for 20 years.
Another sidenote: It gets even better. Suppose you're a single guy and share an apartment with a room mate. Suppose you go out of town for awhile on vacation, and he has the combo to your safe because he stores some documents in there he doesn't want to lose if there's a fire. Is that a "transfer"? Are you willing to bet your and his not going to jail that it isn't? Because you are.
I've come to the inescapable conclusion that this thing isn't a bad bill by accident, it's setup to create as many insta-felons as possible. After all, felons can't own guns.
He meant felons can't legally own guns, we all know they can get them.Well, really felons shouldn't own guns, they most certainly can however. And , they most assuredly don't plan on submitting to a background check in order to get one.
And the statement that they shouldn't is a personal opinion
Yep, I thought of that after. I was thinking you meant in a moral sense.If we're adding the word "legally" lets do it in both places, "felons legally shouldn't own guns"