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10/19/2006 11:15:46 AM EDT
Says it's an "opinion":


Rather than hot link to negative sites please provide the URL for Copy and Paste purposes, it helps keep it from being tracked back to AR15.Com-Phil_in_Seattle

URL for the article, comments, and the poll.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/288774_gunshowed.asp#pollArticle



Monday, October 16, 2006
Gun Shows: Locals armed

The Washington Supreme Court has armed cities and counties with the power to regulate gun shows on public property.

In seeming conflict with its July decision on the state's Defense of Marriage Act, in which the high court ruled that state law is as the Legislature wrote it, the majority in Thursday's ruling on a Sequim gun show said that state law prohibiting local governments from regulating gun shows doesn't do that after all.

"Curiously," wrote Justice Richard Sanders in one of two dissents to the 6-3 decision, the majority said that a state law, "which explicitly and specifically prohibits municipalities from regulating gun shows on municipal property, permits municipalities to regulate gun shows on municipal property."

Writing for the majority, Justice Mary Fairhurst argued that the state's general pre-emption of local regulation of firearms didn't apply because this was a case of issuing a permit for a gun show on public property, not passing an ordinance regulating them. She also reasoned that the gun show in question didn't qualify for exemption from local law as a "showing, demonstration or lecture involving the exhibition of firearms."

The Legislature may try to clarify its intent with new legislation, but for now, local governments have been given clear license to insist, as did Sequim officials, that sales at gun shows on municipal property be conducted only by licensed dealers, who must follow background check requirements on all buyers.

The poll itself is at the bottom of the page.  So far the "Noes" have it, by a landslide, which only means they will whine about members of the Gun Culture emailing their buddies to go vote.
Also a "comments" section.
10/19/2006 11:20:05 AM EDT
[#1]
10/19/2006 11:28:59 AM EDT
[#2]
done
10/19/2006 11:32:57 AM EDT
[#3]

Should all sales at gun shows held on public property be limited to those by licensed dealers?
17.1%Yes.          81.6%No.

1.3%Don't know or care.  

Total Votes: 971


Don't know, don't care?  WTF would a person like that vote on this at all?
10/19/2006 11:37:47 AM EDT
[#4]
Not too many very interesting comments on there yet.
10/19/2006 2:08:13 PM EDT
[#5]

Rather than hot link to negative sites please provide the URL for Copy and Paste purposes, it helps keep it from being tracked back to AR15.Com-Phil_in_Seattle

I knew that...
10/19/2006 2:31:27 PM EDT
[#6]
Also note that the gomers who wrote their .asp poll code based it on cookies. Delete your cookies and you can vote as many times as you want -- kinda like the poll for the Washington State Quarter. Geez, can't they hire someone who knows a little bit about web design.

not that these polls mean diddly squat either way.

10/19/2006 2:34:11 PM EDT
[#7]
Should all sales at gun shows held on public property be limited to those by licensed dealers?


Yes.   16.7%    

No.   82.0%




w00t!

10/19/2006 2:59:16 PM EDT
[#8]
out of over 1000 people polled over 800 of them voted NO.
10/19/2006 3:56:22 PM EDT
[#9]

Quoted:
out of over 1000 people polled over 800 of them voted NO.


Bet you did 500 yourself.  
10/19/2006 4:07:19 PM EDT
[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:
out of over 1000 people polled over 800 of them voted NO.


Bet you did 500 yourself.  


10/19/2006 4:09:46 PM EDT
[#11]
Well, the "results" say something about (alleged) PeeEye readers that surprises me. Personally, I wouldn't use it to line an outhouse basement.
10/19/2006 9:11:46 PM EDT
[#12]
A link on that poll page:

"I-933 is a machine-gun approach"

That ices it.  I'm voting yes on I-933.
10/19/2006 9:30:35 PM EDT
[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Quoted:
out of over 1000 people polled over 800 of them voted NO.


Bet you did 500 yourself.  




10/19/2006 9:31:55 PM EDT
[#14]
Tapped like a keg of shitty beer at a frat party.....

And for the record, the official term is "getting the VOTE out" not "stuffing the ballot box", "slamming a poll" or other terms used by the libtards to denegrate our grass roots efforts to be HEARD!  Of course, you only hear that when the results aren't what was expected by the pollster and come in in favor of a conservative or pro-gun position.  Had it been heavily in favor of the expected liberal or anti-gun position, the pollster would just say "see, I knew we were right!"

When AFRCOM owns a poll like this, we are just mobilizing our voters in force. I always get irritated when someone says "the poll was slammed because of an internet board."  Well, welcome to the 21st century, where word spreads faster than lightning....
10/19/2006 9:42:59 PM EDT
[#15]

Quoted:
Tapped like a keg of shitty beer at a frat party.....

And for the record, the official term is "getting the VOTE out" not "stuffing the ballot box", "slamming a poll" or other terms used by the libtards to denegrate our grass roots efforts to be HEARD!  Of course, you only hear that when the results aren't what was expected by the pollster and come in in favor of a conservative or pro-gun position.  Had it been heavily in favor of the expected liberal or anti-gun position, the pollster would just say "see, I knew we were right!"

When AFRCOM owns a poll like this, we are just mobilizing our voters in force. I always get irritated when someone says "the poll was slammed because of an internet board."  Well, welcome to the 21st century, where word spreads faster than lightning....


Well, let me admit that as much as I like you guys to think that I'm some sort of computer god with nothing better to do than slam an internet poll.....  Those numbers were up before I even voted.

10/19/2006 10:55:29 PM EDT
[#16]
Slap this Fire Mission in GD and see the numbers really ramp up!