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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: jchnw on February 01, 2019, 09:55:31 PM

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Title: High Capacity Magazine Ban House bill 1068 and Senate Bill 5062
Post by: jchnw on February 01, 2019, 09:55:31 PM

High Capacity Magazine Ban House bill 1068 and Senate Bill 5062 will make magazines with high capacity illegal.  There is a grandfather provision but it is a joke.  Take a look at the NRA link for more information.  Not sure if anyone in Olympia will listen but might be worth an email to your representatives and senator.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190201/washington-magazine-ban-firearm-seizure-bills-pass-committee

Here is the joke language on the grandfathering:
I checked and the NRA summary is accurate.  Here is the actual text from the legislatures page.

(3) In order to continue to possess a large capacity magazine
that was legally possessed on the effective date of this section, the
person possessing the large capacity magazine shall possess the large
capacity magazine only on property owned or immediately controlled by
the person, or while engaged in the legal use of the large capacity
magazine at a duly licensed firing range, or while engaged in a
lawful outdoor recreational activity such as hunting, or while
traveling to or from either of these locations for the purpose of
engaging in the legal use of the large capacity magazine, provided
that the large capacity magazine is stored unloaded and in a separate
locked container during transport.
(4) A person who violates this section is guilty of a gross
misdemeanor punishable under chapter 9A.20 RCW. 25
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p. 8 SB 5062

Title: Re: High Capacity Magazine Ban House bill 1068 and Senate Bill 5062
Post by: bornhunter on February 01, 2019, 10:00:32 PM

Unenforcible. You can read right through the bull shocky in this bill.