WA State voters: critical upcoming votes on I-594 and I-591 in November

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Originally Posted by 223to45

First I have heard about it.
But if people are so scared they are selling them back, then those people to stupid to own in the first place.
I594 changes nothing for what is a already owned.

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The people who are members on M4C won't be scared off by these legislative changes, but some large chunk of casual owners may be. And if gun ownership goes from say 75% to 25%, it will be much, much easier to get even worse laws passed, and you can rinse/wash/repeat the cycle of gun bans. Think long-term strategy by people who hate you. I have no idea if the story of people getting out of guns is correct, but it would be very worrisome if it is.

My bet is, yah, more people are selling guns to gunshops, but these people were going to sell the guns anyways, they simply elected to sell to the shop instead of to a private party because they didn't know what they needed to do or just didn't want to deal with regard to private sales.

In other words, it seems doubtful any serious numbers are "getting rid of all their guns", but rather, it is changing *who* they are selling to as you might have predicted.

-john

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Originally Posted by Bolt_Overide

And the Californication of the great state of Washington is now complete. So glad I left 14 years ago before it got really bad.

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Actually, the overall picture is pretty reasonable save a few acts of randomness.

State Constitution: The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired

^^^ Note "individual citizen"

Duty to retreat: No

Open carry: Yes

Shall issue CCW: Yes

Max time limit for CCW wait: Yes

CCW class req: No

SBR: Yes

Silencer: Yes

CCW must inform LEO: Only if asked

Postings have weight of law? No

Mag restrictions: No

"AWB": No

May cities enact more restrictive gun laws than state law? No

Now the traffic on the other hand...

-john