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WA HB1016 has passed! Part 3: WA suppressor laws fixed!
Written by reg mathuszUPDATE 04/11/11:
Congratulations WA!! Gov. Gregoire signed today and it should go into effect 90 days from end of session (mid-June)! Thanks to everyone that called, emailed, and wrote their legislature. Glad to see this common sense legislation passed.
I posted about HB1016 (and SB5112) earlier urging folks to call/write their state legislator. I am pleased to post that HB1016 has passed the WA House and Senate. There was little opposition (only 4 Congressmen and ZERO Senators) voted against this common sense legislation.
It has been signed off by the House Speaker and Senate President. It now awaits the Governor's signature (or not). Please call/write your legislators and thank them!
WA State residents - suppressor laws on verge of being fixed!
Written by reg mathuszPlease contact your State Senator and ask them to support HB1016.
SB5112 - it needs to be pulled from committee and read again for floor vote. It has already passed Judiciary Committee. It has to in the next week or so, or it will be dead in committee. . It needs to be pulled for a Senate floor vote.
The State House has already passed it (HB1016) with only 4 dissenting votes.
This bill will bring the current laws in line with Federal code and allow usage in addition to just possession.
I would also like to remind folks that no legally registered NFA suppressor has ever been used in a crime.
Even local local law enforcement support it:
Picture pulled from this thread: Firing Line
Sorry for any erratic behavior today. I am trying to upgrade to WP3.1 and a few plugins. It is not going as smoothly as hoped.
UPDATE:
WP3.1 upgrade completed. I didn't realize it required a DB upgrade, which made it difficult to roll back. Luckily, pressing on resolved the issues and it was "successfull."
Also upgraded the contact plugin software, and with some tweaking it now works.
Christmas back door arbitrary gun registration!
Written by reg mathuszI just received this in email:
Dear J&G Customer,
This is a special notice to warn you of impending new gun regulation. The ATF has proposed to require gun dealers to provide directly to the ATF the names, addresses, and serial numbers for every purchase of two or more semi auto, mag fed rifles within a five day period!! They are trying to force this in by January 5th, without any approval from Congress, calling it a needed "emergency" regulation. This is backdoor registration of guns and gunowners.
Here is a quote from the notice by the NSSF (National Shooting Sports Foundation) regarding this burdensome and illegal move:
"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is moving to require federally licensed firearms retailers to report multiple sales of modern sporting rifles beginning January 5, 2011. Specifically, the ATF requirement calls for firearms retailers to report multiple sales, or other dispositions, of two or more .22 caliber or larger semi-automatic rifles that are capable of accepting a detachable magazine and are purchased by the same individual within five consecutive business days."
We are encouraging everyone to contact the relevant officials to protest this move. The office that approves regulation changes like this that bypass Congress is the Office of Information and Regulation affairs of the DOJ and they can be reached at 202-395-6466. You can call your Senator and Representative at the US Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
The NSSF offers the following points to make when calling
1. "Multiple sales reporting of long guns will actually make it more difficult for licensed retailers to help law enforcement as traffickers modify their illegal schemes to circumvent the reporting requirement. Traffickers will go further underground, hiring more people to buy their firearms. This will make it much harder for retailers to identify and report suspicious behavior to law enforcement."
2. "Long guns are rarely used in crime (Bureau of Justice Statistics)."
3. "Imposing multiple sales-reporting requirements for long guns would further add to the already extensive paperwork and record-keeping requirements burdening America’s retailers – where a single mistake could cost them their license and even land them in jail."
4. "Last year, ATF inspected 2,000 retailers in border states and only two licenses were revoked (0.1%). These revocations were for reasons unknown and could have had nothing to do with illicit trafficking of guns; furthermore, no dealers were charged with any criminal wrongdoing."
5. "According to ATF, the average age of a firearm recovered in the United States is 11 years old. In Mexico it’s more than 14 years old. This demonstrates that criminals are not using new guns bought from retailers in the states."
6. "Congress, when it enacted multiple sales reporting for handguns, could have required multiple sales of long guns – it specifically chose not to."
Read the full notice by the NSSF here:
http://www.nssfblog.com/atf-to-require-multiple-sales-reports-for-long-guns/
Read the full ATF document proposing this illegal move here: (PDF)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/atf.pdf
Ok, the free webhost that I was using lost its mySQL server. The data is coming back but I don't know when. I was able to create a new site and import my last backup. Unfortunately, it is a few months old so some content is missing.
Site is also a little slow since I had converted the flikr links to local storage to increase speed. Also, some of the old links still reference the old site, which of course, don't work :(
But it is good to be back!
EPA Surrenders to NRA on Gun Control Issue – US News and World Report
Written by reg mathuszSo, when I converted the categories to tags it messed up the shortcut link. It is fixed now.
01/09/11: It has come to my attention that the contact me form doesn't work since I turned off comments. My email address is now listed on the About-Contact page. If you haven't heard from me, my apologies, please email me directly.
12/17/10: I think that is as good as it is going to get. I am converting the pics over to local (instead of Flikr) so performance will continue to improve.
11/26/10: Our web host lost their mySQL server. I have restored the site here with an old backup. Please bear with me as I attempt to return it to its full functionality.
