Today, at 5:00pm, marked the deadline for bills to be voted out of the House they originated in. As previously reported, two anti-gun bills your NRA-ILA has been actively opposing in Olympia were awaiting a vote on the House floor, however both of these bills failed to receive a vote before the cut-off and are likely defeated for the year.

The Substitute for House Bill 1122 would have required the locking up of one’s firearms or else they would potentially face reckless endangerment charges.  Further, under this bill the penalty for a reckless endangerment charge involving a gun storage violation would amount to a Class C Felony.  This intrusive government legislation invades people’s homes and forces them to render their firearms useless in a self-defense situation.

House Bill 1483, sponsored by state Representative Tana Senn, would have allowed for the destruction of all firearms confiscated by or forfeited to the Washington State Patrol.  Like other seized items, these firearms should be sold by law-enforcement to generate revenue instead of spending money to have them destroyed.

Also today, the Washington Senate passed SB 5536, sponsored by Senator Phil Fortunato, which would create a specialized National Rifle Association (NRA) license plate featuring the NRA logo. This legislation, which passed the Senate with a 30-19 vote, would also use proceeds from the NRA license plate to fund hunter education.  The NRA applauds the Senate for passing legislation that recognizes the Second Amendment and the importance of hunter education in Washington!

Thank you to NRA members and Second Amendment supporters for your active involvement in the legislative session.  Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org and your email inbox for updates on other bills relating to the Second Amendment as the session continues in Olympia.

Thanks for the update.

Now what pro-gun bills are on the agenda to submit?

We cannot always stay on the defensive.

Turd Ferguson knew that neither bill had a snowball's chance in hell of making it out of committee.

He knows the real deal is in the initiative process.
That's where these bills will resurface.  

This has been a F'd up day, thanks, I needed some good news.

Good news for now.

Exactly this!  The fight is far from over.

QFT!

The fight's far from over. Its never over with these turds, but I am relieved for now.


Im wondering if it never hitting the floor is a missed opportunity. Those were some pretty damn harsh bills, to get defeated would've sent a message and slapped some egg on turd furgasons face.

He couldn't care less.  He got paid for introducing the bills and thats all that matters to him

I guess the only thing we can be thankful for is that one of the biggest anti-2A tards in this state, Nick Hanauer, has basically devoted himself to dumping as much cash and attention as possible into the Seattle income tax push.

OTOH that is a whole other can of disgusting worms that we will have to deal with.

That cocksucker is a major owner of the Sounders.  Won't catch me at a match.  Mr. Nick "I want to take big money out of politics" Hanauer.  Go to hell.