Fentanyl & methamphetamine in Seattle streets.

The epidemic of drug use is killing Seattle residents & depriving the public of spaces intended to be safe for everyone. We won’t give up areas of our city to overt drug use & antisocial behavior, & this legislation will bring a critical tool to disrupt open-air drug markets -- Ann Davison (@_Ann_Davison_) Seattle City Attorney, leading its law department as chief legal officer & prosecutor.

Maybe Seattle will stop living in the fairyland of drug haze and death.  But call Impolite skeptical and don't bet on it.

NRA sues Democrat governor over Washington state's new 'blatantly unconstitutional' gun ban

The NRA complaint was filed the same day Gov Jay Inslee signed a bill into law banning the sale of semiautomatic firearms.

"This new law is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court long-ago ruled that states cannot ban firearms that are in common use," Aoibheann Cline, Washington state director of the NRA-ILA, said of the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington state, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned. 

Inslee signed three gun control bills on Tuesday, including House Bill 1240, which took effect immediately in banning the sale and manufacture of 50 types of semiautomatic rifles, including AK-47s and AR-15s.

"No one needs an AR-15 to protect your family," Inslee lied on Tuesday. "You only need it to kill other families."   

The NRA’s lobbying arm, NRA-ILA, filed the suit Tuesday - which specifically targets the ban on semiautomatic firearms - in the Eastern District of Washington on behalf of individual plaintiffs and the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The suit names Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Washington State Patrol Chief John R. Batiste as defendants. 

[FOXNews]

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Gov. Inslee really should have looked at our own state constitution, in Article 1, section 24.  "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 (emphasis mine)."

The new law will be found defective since it violates both the US Constitution and Washington state's constitution. 

How can citizens defend the state without weapons of war?  Inslee and his gang should be removed for trifling with our right, and he should be imprisoned for ignoring the constitution.  But first we should sue him for slandering us who own semi-autos -- lets make some money off of him for his crime.

Washington state's new gun control laws summary

Unless Gov Inslee calls the  legislature back into session, the  they have concluded doing damage for the year.

Bill	Subject	Description	Status
HB 1143	Requirements for the Purchase or Transfer of Firearms	Provides that a dealer may not transfer any firearm to a purchaser or transferee until completion of a background check indicating the person is eligible to possess firearms and ten business days have elapsed since the dealer requested the background check. Additionally, prohibits a dealer from transferring a firearm to a purchaser or transferee unless the person provides the dealer with proof of completion of a recognized firearm safety training program. Finally, updates firearm transfer and background check processes, including updates to conform to implementation of a state firearms background check program.	Passed House: 52 yeas, 44 nays Senate: 28 yeas, 18 nays (Senate amended) House: 52 yeas, 44 nays (House concurred)
HB 1240	Establishing Firearms-Related Safety Measures to Increase Public Safety	Prohibits the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, or offer for sale of any assault weapon, subject to various exceptions for licensed firearm manufacturers and dealers, for individuals who inherit an assault weapon, for firearms dealers to sell or transfer their existing stock of assault weapons that were acquired prior to January 1, 2023, to outside of the state for the limited period of 90 days after the effective date. Further, provides a violation of these restrictions constitutes a gross misdemeanor and is actionable under the Consumer Protection Act	Passed House: 55 yeas, 42 nays Senate: 27 yeas, 21 nays (Senate amended) House Refuses to Concur Senate: 28 yeas, 21 nays (Senate amended) House: 56 yeas, 42 nays (House concurred)
SB 5078	Duties of Firearm Industry Members	Requires firearm industry members to establish, implement and enforce reasonable controls regarding the manufacture, sale, distribution, import, use, and marketing of the firearm industry members' firearm and firearm related products. Prohibits firearm industry members from creating or maintaining a public nuisance.	Passed Senate: 28 yeas, 21 nays House: 57 yeas, 41 nays (House amended) Senate: 26 yeas, 20 nays (Senate concurred)

The Washington state Declaration of Rights states that "The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired."

Its pretty clear that HB 1143 and Hb 1240 violate this right by the bans and compulsory delays.

SB 5078 only requires that the innocent be held acountable for others' crimes, in violation of the principles of justice.

Let's work to reverse this sessions' injustices.

Ask Inslee to veto illegal gun ban

Yesterday, the House voted 56-42 on the bill’s final passage, to concur with the Senate on House Bill 1240 (Text of the  bill; NRA explanation).  HB1240 is a comprehensive ban on most commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and firearm parts that exceeds the provisions of California’s ban. 

The ban will include repair parts for your firearms.

It will now go to Governor Jay Inslee’s desk for his signature. Please click here to contact Gov. Inslee and ask him to VETO HB 1240.

Suggested text:

Please veto HB 1240.  It violates the citizen's right to be armed in defense of self and state.  This right is guaranteed in our state constitution (Article  1, Section 24).  Our guns are for our defense. 

Washington: Senate Again Passes Comprehensive Semi-Automatic Firearm BAN

Today, the Senate voted 28-21 to pass House Bill 1240, a comprehensive ban on most commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and firearm parts that exceeds the provisions of California’s ban. Due to an amendment being adopted on the Senate Floor during debate, the bill will now go to back to the House for concurrence. Please contact your state representatives and ask them to OPPOSE HB 1240.

House Bill 1240, a so-called “assault weapons ban,” is a comprehensive ban on the future transferring, importing, and manufacturing of many semi-automatic firearms that law-abiding citizens commonly-own for self-defense, competition, and recreation. It bans enumerated firearm models on a list that includes shotguns, handguns and rifles. The ban includes semi-automatic rifles with an overall length of less than 30 inches, and any firearms with one or more proscribed features that exist on modern designs for making firearms more user-friendly, such as telescoping stocks meant to adjust the length of pull for users of different statures or wearing different clothing, muzzle brakes meant to reduce recoil, grips conducive to the natural angles of human wrists, and suppressors for hearing protection. The bill also bans spare parts and “combination[s] of parts” that can be used to assemble banned firearms, but on their own are simply pieces of plastic or metal.

In addition, the bill was recently amended to allow the sale of firearms or parts listed under the bill for 30 days if they were in stock as of January 1st, 2023. While this recent amendment gives little reprieve to retailers and distributors in the state, it also imposes a retroactive ban on items that were otherwise lawfully purchased after January 1st, 2023.

The NRA currently has lawsuits working their way through the federal courts against the similar bans that California, Delaware, and Illinois have enacted. Such bans on commonly-owned firearms that are popular with law-abiding citizens for legitimate purposes fly in the face of the text, history, and tradition of Second Amendment rights.

Again, please contact your state representatives and ask them to OPPOSE HB 1240.

Washington State legislature decided its okay for them to break up families and multilate children

No court action required.

Washington state passed a bill allowing children to legally be taken away from their parents for not consenting to gender transition procedures on their child. According to Senate Bill 5599, shelters could contact the Department of Children, Youth, and Families instead of parents for minors seeking reproductive health services or gender-affirming care. The proposal would pave the way for more of a "compelling reason" to conceal a child who seeks sex change operations or reproductive health services such as abortion (Townhall).

These measures come as transgender activists, social media personalities, and therapists encourage minors to sever ties with their parents if they don’t support medical transitions (Free Beacon).

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The Democrats with condescending deception claim SB 5599 is to "safeguard" young lives (Senate Democrats).  They have decided that its okay for them to mutilate your children if they can. 

This is an amazing overreach that must be reversed.

Gun ban & greed crazed Democrats

Washington state's crazed Democrats struck with the anti gun bill HB1143. 

HB1143 titled AN ACT Relating to enhancing requirements for the purchase or transfer of firearms by requiring a permit to purchase firearms, firearms safety training, and a 10-day waiting period, prohibiting firearms transfers prior to completion of a background check, and updating and creating consistency in firearms transfer and background check procedures, has been passed by the Senate. 

The Office of Financial Management identified this bill as requiring a ten-year projection of increased cost to the taxpayers or affected fee payers.

Ten-year projection:

The ten-year projection is not yet complete. It will be sent as soon as it is available.

The greed crazed, gun-hating Democrats passed it anyway. 

See https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAGOV/bulletins/354d3b0 for my source on this one.

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Meanwhile, The legislature narrowly passed restoration of police pursuit standards bill SB 5352.   If Inslee signs this bill (which he has not done yet), we will have a return to the more rational police pursuits of suspects.  Current law effectively prohibits pursuit.

So in exchange for a loss in ability to defend ourselves, we get some restore police protection.  Unless we pressure them to give us back our rights (or get rid of them), the Democrats war on stable society will continue.

Suing gun dealers for crimes criminals do

The House voted 57-41 to pass Senate Bill 5078, to allow anti-gun zealots to bankrupt the firearm industry with frivolous lawsuits. The bill now goes back to the Senate for concurrence. 

Senate Bill 5078 aims to undermine the PLCAA and subject licensed firearm manufacturers and sellers to frivolous lawsuits brought to recover damages for the criminal misuse of their products. Protecting the firearms industry, like other lawful industries, is necessary because our legal system generally does not punish anyone for the criminal actions of others. 

This bill simply seeks to set up the firearms industry to be sued out of existence in the state of Washington. The firearms industry supplies thousands of jobs in Washington and the excise tax on the sale and purchase of firearms, ammunition, and accessories produces millions of dollars for conservation in our state from Pittman-Robertson funds. This bill will eliminate thousands of jobs and deprive the state of millions of dollars annually. Without the firearms industry, the People will not have access to firearms and ammunition and lose the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.

Please contact your state senator and ask them to OPPOSE SB 5078.  Link:  https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/5078.  Holding a third party accountable for the acts of another is unfair, and does nothing to address public safety.  Please oppose SB 5078.

The Truth About Gun Violence

By The Numbers



Colin Noir, Firearms Rights Attorney, on Twitter

This originally appeared on Twitter 3 years ago. Its time to renew our acquaintance with this truth.

WA Democratic Party opposes democracy

The Washington State Democrats in the legislature have voted against democracy. 

SB 5082, the measure to abolish advisory ballots in general elections, has passed out of the legislature and is headed to Inslee's desk.  Governor Inslee is expected to sign the measure into law.  We the People will see our democratic input in spending decisions restricted.  

Hooray for the Democrats for reducing democracy and making our lives so much more meaningful.  

WA Senate passed the waiting period mandate

Today, the Senate voted 28-18 to pass House Bill 1143, to impose a waiting period and training mandate for acquiring firearms. It will now go to vehemently anti-gun Governor Jay Inslee’s desk, where he is expected to sign it into law. The Senate is expected to also hold a vote on House Bill 1240, to impose a gun ban exceeding what California has, very soon. 

House Bill 1143 denies law-abiding citizens their Second Amendment right to acquire firearms unless they present proof of completion of official, sanctioned firearms training within the past five years, which they must complete at their own expense. 

It also imposes an arbitrary ten-day delay on prospective gun owners taking possession of their firearms and makes this delay longer or indefinite if the state fails to complete a background check during that time. .

The Department of Licensing will also maintain a database (registry) of gun owners and their personal data, despite the agency having previously suffered a data breach affecting 650,000 citizens, just last year.

Oppose mandatory waiting periods now

Waiting periods don't work.  "States implementing waiting periods saw nonsignificant drops in homicide" [Rand].  Why?  Criminals ignore waiting periods.  Its obvious that violent criminals gain the  advantage when waiting periods exist.  Waiting periods and fees will only affect the law-abiding citizen.

HB 1143 will substantially interfere with a citizen's right to be armed in self-defense by imposing a waiting period.  If you need to defend yourself now, you need it now.  HB 1143 is on the Washington state senate floor now. 

HB 1143 will

• Requires a ten business day waiting period applicable to all buyers.
• Require that dealer not transfer any firearm to a buyer until completion of a background check on the buyer.
• Require a buyer to furnish the dealer with proof of completion of a recognized firearm safety training program.
• Updates firearm transfer and background check processes, including updates to conform to implementation of a state firearms background check program. 

Apparently there will be a fee imposed on buyers for buying.  How much is still not clear, since the projections are still not completed (https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAGOV/bulletins/352c663)

Contact your state Senator.  Tell them to oppose HB 1143.

If you wish, email your remarks to every Senator.  Tell them how unsafe they are making life in the state of Washington.  Although only Democrats have favored these restrictions, the list includes all Senators form both parties.  The lieutenant governor is also on the list, since he is president of the senate.

andy.billig@leg.wa.gov; matt.boehnke@leg.wa.gov; john.braun@leg.wa.gov; annette.cleveland@leg.wa.gov; steve.conway@leg.wa.gov; manka.dhingra@leg.wa.gov; perry.dozier@leg.wa.gov; phil.fortunato@leg.wa.gov; noel.frame@leg.wa.gov; chris.gildon@leg.wa.gov; bob.hasegawa@leg.wa.gov; brad.hawkins@leg.wa.gov; jeff.holy@leg.wa.gov; sam.hunt@leg.wa.gov; claudia.kauffman@leg.wa.gov; karen.keiser@leg.wa.gov; curtis.king@leg.wa.gov; patty.kuderer@leg.wa.gov; marko.liias@leg.wa.gov; liz.lovelett@leg.wa.gov; john.lovick@leg.wa.gov; drew.macewen@leg.wa.gov; jim.mccune@leg.wa.gov; mark.mullet@leg.wa.gov; ron.muzzall@leg.wa.gov; joe.nguyen@leg.wa.gov; twina.nobles@leg.wa.gov; mike.padden@leg.wa.gov; jamie.pedersen@leg.wa.gov; emily.randall@leg.wa.gov; ann.rivers@leg.wa.gov; june.robinson@leg.wa.gov; christine.rolfes@leg.wa.gov; rebecca.saldana@leg.wa.gov; jesse.salomon@leg.wa.gov; mark.schoesler@leg.wa.gov; sharon.shewmake@leg.wa.gov; shelly.short@leg.wa.gov; derek.stanford@leg.wa.gov; nikki.torres@leg.wa.gov; yasmin.trudeau@leg.wa.gov; javier.valdez@leg.wa.gov; kevin.vandewege@leg.wa.gov; keith.wagoner@leg.wa.gov; judy.warnick@leg.wa.gov; lisa.wellman@leg.wa.gov; claire.wilson@leg.wa.gov; jeff.wilson@leg.wa.gov; lynda.wilson@leg.wa.gov; ltgov@ltgov.wa.gov