Responding to the Newtown school massacre, the bill would ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons that use detachable ammunition magazines. Clips that contain more than 10 rounds would be illegal.

But then, with respect to the thousands of weapons like that already owned by Washington residents, the bill says this:

“In order to continue to possess an assault weapon that was legally possessed on the effective date of this section, the person possessing shall ... safely and securely store the assault weapon. The sheriff of the county may, no more than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance with this subsection.”

In other words, come into homes without a warrant to poke around. Failure to comply could get you up to a year in jail.

“I’m a liberal Democrat — I’ve voted for only one Republican in my life,” Palmer told me. “But now I understand why my right-wing opponents worry about having to fight a government takeover.”

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It never bothers folks until it happens to them.

I'm glad someone on the left us starting to wake up. Once it gets rolling it will turn into a freight train and it will be extremely hard to stop.

I see a SCOTUS challenge to this law in the near future....like it or not I think SCOTUS is going to clarify the second amendment sooner than later.

Ummm...Yeaahh.
I dont see that working out to well for the young officer trying to enforce that law.

This is all part of Washington States extreme liberal atmosphere. SB5737 is the number of the bill, I think, that they are trying to push through. Problem is: the hunters/shooters up there don't seem to understand yet what is being done to them. Are they just going to be blindly led to slaughter or do they stand up and make some noise. Time will tell and time is getting short.

It may be like most other legislation of this sort...no one knows about it until after the fact. The politicians know that if people knew about it they would have a chance to fight against it...and rightly so. Obamacare is another perfect example of this administrations "Transparency". The democratic left wing trash that helped vote that into life are the same liars that are proposing this ridiculous piece of legislation in Washington.

Things are just getting way too out of hand.

This is all part of Washington States extreme liberal atmosphere. SB5737 is the number of the bill, I think, that they are trying to push through. Problem is: the hunters/shooters up there don't seem to understand yet what is being done to them. Are they just going to be blindly led to slaughter or do they stand up and make some noise. Time will tell and time is getting short.