UPDATE 2/23/13: the assault weapons bill that was proposed in the Washington State Legislature has died. http://blogs.seattletimes.com/
Lawmakers in Washington State have accidentally written a bill permitting police to invade private homes for the purpose of confiscating “illegal” guns and accessories, such as magazines that hold over 10 rounds.
According to Senate Bill 5737, introduced on February 13th by Democrat State Senators Murray, Kohl-Welles, and Kline, no one may possess an “assault weapon” or the combination of a semi-automatic pistol or rifle capable of using a detachable magazine AND any magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammo.
Happily, however, you ARE allowed to possess an UNLOADED assault weapon “…for the purpose of permanently relinquishing it to a law enforcement agency of the state.” (Pg. 6)
Naturally, the statute would NOT apply to police, members of law enforcement in the state, or to federal authorities; in short, the oft-referred to “only ones.” That is, the only ones, the political ruling class tells us, who can be trusted with firearms.
However, if one happens to own an “assault weapon” prior to the effective date of the legislation, he may keep it IF he agrees to “safely and securely store the assault weapon.” And by the way, “THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY MAY, NO MORE THAN ONCE PER YEAR, CONDUCT AN INSPECTION TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE…” Not surprisingly, safe and secure storage is not defined in the bill. (Pg. 7)
Also not surprisingly, this language was quickly deleted from the bill immediately upon lawmakers learning of the public outrage their little foray into dictatorship had spawned.
Yet, in order to provide cover for the bill’s sponsors and fellow liberals, duplicitous “journalist” Danny Westneat is hoping to sell Washington gun owners on the laughable story that the whole thing was just an unfortunate mistake! According to Westneat, one of the bill’s sponsors, Democrat Adam Kline “…did not know the bill authorized police searches because he had not read it closely before signing on.” Naturally, ALL prospective laws should be written without paying much attention to what’s in them!
And the PRIME sponsor, Democrat Ed Murray, admitted that the language was “probably unconstitutional.” “I have to admit that shouldn’t be in there,” allowed the munificent liberal.
PROBABLY unconstitutional? Here is the 4th Amendment to the Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
And by the way, MR. Murray, how were your “only ones” to know which homes to enter and search? Could it be that mandatory, statewide gun registration was to become the next in your series of “common sense” gun laws?
But even with the Orwellian language now removed, SB 5737 is an affront to the God-given rights of the American people. After all, the bill still states that, should one inherit an “assault weapon,” he must either dispose of it by allowing law enforcement to confiscate it or permanently disable it. It is government literally authorizing the theft or destruction of personal property. Anyone who objects will be subject to one year in prison.
As for the claim by the bill’s authors that it was a mistake, a misstep? “It’s a “misstep” because they said what they want to do. They gave away what their plan is.” The truth is, “it’s not a misstep, it’s the next step.”
Freedom-loving Americans must understand that the left will never stop their assault on our liberty until WE FINALLY STOP THEM.
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Yeah , a ” misstep ” all right . The only misstep was to let us know what they are up to . Not only the ” government ” is getting rid of our Constitution , bit by bit , they are now coming right out as being a dictatorship government . King Hussein came out before that he doesn’t care for the Constitution , long before he stole the presidency . Now , the Liberals , are saying that he knows what we need . That’s unbelievable . And wonder why he bought out over 1 million rounds of ” hollow point ” bullets for the HSA , and other ” law ” agencies . This shows what we are looking at , DICTATORSHIP !
Please Warchief65 it is not King Hussein, Possibly Emperor Hussein but I think he believes he is God.
Satan is running rampant in this country, he has Obama, a lieing 2 faced hater of all that is good and right for Americans, lives only to please his father, satan, father of all lies and acts of sin. Then comes the congress, 2 faced back biteing spawns of satan. Along with the other demons of satans, the administration, where one lies and the other swears to it or covers it up. God says, I am to pray for my enemies, if I prayed for them today I would ask God, Heavenly Father of my soul,to send all leing, 2 faced satan followers, the government officials, state and federal, of the USA, greatest nation in the world you created, be found quilty in your eyes of the sins they have and are committing against We The People and condemed straight to hell today!
@warchief65
Actually the total of rounds the government agencies has purchased is now app. 1.8 BILLION, not million…. and still climbing… That ammo, I believe, is being passed along similar to and related to Fast and Furious, while parts of it are being stored around the country at designated places in trailer vans which are protected.
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
The ammunition and weapons that DHS is stockpiling is for the Citizen Army that Obama talked about during his first campaign. There has already been graduating classes of recruits. Obama said that his Citizen Army would be as well trained and equipped as the Military. The Military and National Guard are for protecting the country from foreign enemies. The Citizen Army is for protecting the Government from citizens opposing Obama’s dictatorship. As Obama raises the size of his Citizen Army, he is decreasing the size of the Military and National Guard troops.
These people really think we are stupid. ACCIDENTLY INCLUDED ILLEGAL SEARCHES IN THEIR LEGISLATION? Have these idiots even ever have read the U S Constitution which when sworn in they SWORE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION? It is like we have to pass this bill to find out what is in it. Every damn democrat ought to be voted out of office, and every republican who voted for it. BETTER STILL, THEY SHOULD RESIGN. IMMEDIATELY.
“These people” KNOW WE ARE STUPID.
jUST OBSERVE THE AMOUNT OF GATHERED PROOF OF
INSURRECTION ON THE PART OF THESE SCUM
AND EXACTLY HOW MANY…WHO???? CAN OR ARE DOING
ANYTHING AT AL ABOUT IT?????
tHEY ARE A BUNCH OF OLD MEN RUNNING THIS TYRANNY.
WHO’S STUPID????????????????????/
@jUSTacOUNTRYbOY
People would not be so stupid if they had not been PURPOSELY dumbed down by the educational system. Also a loss of commonsense is even worse than a dumbed down educational system. People having lost their commonsense with the aid of being dumbed down by public eduction has actually made society stupid beyond belief. You can’t law sense into people, no more so than you educate them quickly. Both takes time and morals to instill into people a sense of what is right and wrong. (Commonsense comes from moral fortitude. Moral fortitude comes from morals, and morals comes from Christ God. Now you also know why there is such a big push to remove Christian teachings and everything Christian from the public.)
Two people made a similar statement concerning this very thing. Al Gore during his campaign for president said that that everything was upside down today. What is up is down and what is down is up. Problem there was he didn’t see his participation in causing this. Last Easter the Pope made his speech saying, “The world has lost its’ ability to distinguish right from wrong.” My question to all of you is; How do you educate a ignorant and arrogant public that has no commonsense? And if you can’t educate them; What is gonna happen to society?
Personally I know and understand that all these things have been arranged for and planned for decades. There are certain people that wishes to control the entire world, but in order to accomplish this they must first dumb down and enslave societies in order that the people not understand and realize they are being made slaves, including by the purposeful dumbing down through education. At the same time you must understand that many people, as many people as wants to be truly free as we do, also wants to enslave everyone so they may live their life with as little work and effort as possible. They have no problem backing those people that wishes to enslave the world, for they think they will also profit from it.
I have always said that you could take Christ and put Him on side of a room and Satan on the opposite, then take whatever number of people you desire and place them in the middle to choose. Let Christ and Satan have equal time telling about themselves in any way they so desire. In the end just as many people would choose Satan as would choose Christ. Do not fool yourselves into thinking ALL people want to do good, or even a majority of them. Neither think that all people who claim Christ actually believe in Christ. I’ve learned that people will do and say anything for their profit, even if temporary and trivial.
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Michael, I have to agree with you. If you study Bible prophecy, you will learn that all that is happening today was prophesied about a long time ago. As you said, people will have a choice of which way they want to live here on earth. Satan will promise you riches and joy during your lifetime but doesn’t say what you will get when you leave this life. Jesus said that there would be trials and tribulation for His namesake during this lifetime but paradise after you leave this life.
Michael, as for your comment about not all people that to be Christian actually believe in Christ. A good example is Obama. Obama claimed to be a Christian when he was running for President, but now we all know that he is really a Muslim and Muslims don’t believe in Christ Jesus as the Son of God.
The Lib’s have it all wrong . We are suppose to Protect and Defend our Constitution, ………. not Protest and Offend our Constitution.
The whole sad truth about this incident is that we will begin to see more of this happen across the country.
Warrant-less search of your own house? That has got to be stepping on your Constitutional rights. Hurry up and get it to the Supreme Court. I am getting disgusted at the constant assault of our once free country and Constitutional Rights we once had. I am just waiting on obama crossing the line and Congress doing nothing about it. At that point I will hear the Shot heard around the world and will bare my arms against the invaders from within. Thank God that I have a good stock on ammo since all the stores supplies have dried up. At least it appears that there are many standing beside me against this illegal in the White House.
Supreme court, you are joking. They have already been locked into Obamas destroy America campaign
I don’t think this was an accident.
I live near the subhuman Seattle soviet where most of our State’s political sewage originates. Ed Murray’s “spouse” is Michael Shiosaki. Ed is the Washington State Senate Majority Leader. Ed successfully promoted legalizing homosexual marriage and marijuana use, devolving the State. Ed now wants to allow yearly warrantless searches of private residences for assault rifles. Ed’s actions have horrible national repercussions and they must be stopped. Ed may be reached at: (360) 786-7628, 316 Legislative Building, PO Box 40443, Olympia, WA 98504-0443.
http://elect.ErnestHuberForCongress.com/
I notice Ed’s address is Olympia. Is that the same place the ancient Greek gods called home.
“Freedom-loving Americans must understand that the left will never stop their assault on our liberty until WE FINALLY STOP THEM.”
And we stop them how? I’m all for it. Just tell us how and we’ll do it!
I live in Washington state. Besides “Just Say No” (thanks Mychal), I have written to the sponsers of this bill and also to my area represenative Hastings, and to my 2 Senators Cantwell and Murray. Besides other things I wrote, I also informed them, I will not disarm, I will not comply, and they will meet with resistance. And I stand by those words 100%. If we do not stand up to these bureaucratic, socialist bullies, they will take everything we worked very hard to attain. Yes, they may anyway, but not without a fight. They are WRONG. They are Communist. And I do not live in that country. I live in the USA, abide by God’s words, the US Constitution, and am a law abiding citizen.
Then they can ACCIDENTALLY reverse it! I believe I see a huge problem with this in my crystal ball from the people of this country who are fed up with the take over scheme that has moved very fast in the last 4 years and we are beginning on a new 4 years of communist/muslim rule! Don’t think so? If not better open your eyes!
My Son has lived in Tacoma for over a year and he says the region is a bunch of Moonbats—they talk anarchy against the system but vote for Obama—and his crisis centric mode of cultural assault
Why Is Everyone Becoming Liars.? Is That The New Movemment?
I have more guns than I know what to do with them alll so I shoot them a often as I can,I have tons of amo for them all cause I use to buy it by the foot locker full out of catalogs which I can stilll buy in quantity,usually 1500-2000 rounds per box and the have all tyes of rounds for al firearms. As for any law enforcemnt wanting to invade my privacy al I can tell em is their going to do so at their own risk plus I have a contingentcy plan should they ever make it a law here in KY,I have several places deep in the woods that only I know where their at etc and I have a front end loader/backhoe comboe,so I al I have to do is to sel them all up nice and tight etc then take em out and bury them in foot lockers which I have enough of those and their never going to be able to fimd them no matter how hard they may try.Everybody needs to have plan such as this
Come down south…. And try to take mine….. You will receive it “One Shot At A TIME”.
@OldGaDawg
Ole Lincoln should have finished the job the first time and put you on reservations with the Indians. Now they’ve got to finish the job.
The Young Turks thinks you want to get your @ ss kicked again..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iFNdKPJqgA
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Whoever tries to force their way into my home will end up eating a dirt sandwich. I don’t care what this communist thinks he is going to do. He will not remove our guns. That is where we draw the line. This fall, we will be choosing our obamacare plans. Wait until people see how much its going to cost. People think its going to be free. No, it is not free by a long shot. We will be paying thousands of dollars a years for premiums. A family making $120,000 a year will pay $20,000 a year in premiums. I wonder how many of us will be living in a tent in the woods by the time obama is out of office? It will come down to paying our mortgage or paying for obamacare, mark my word. This is guy doesn’t care about America. He is a sick, demented, brain washed turd.
Any search of my home will render somebody a few rounds of ammo. Then feed for the buzzards. That may sound rash, but it is the truth. Today is the peaceful “Day of Resistance”. I hope it finds national success.
Isn’t Washington part of Canada??
It’s easy to say it was a MISTAKE…. when it’s done intenionally…
The Constitution clearly protects the citizens of the United States from unreasonable searches and seizures. For any state to approve warrantless searches and seizures is a violation of the Constitution. To just go into someone’s home and search it to see if they have something illegal without having probable cause is nothing more than Gestapo tactics. Is this what free Americans are going to have to tolerate now? This is Communism, not Democracy.
Since the end of the second world war the people of the United States have been PROGRAMMED by the government,the media, and the Hollywood movie industry to believe that we have been visited by extraterestrial creatures from outer space and are subject to being attacked, at any time, by them. In addition, experimentation by entrapreneurs with get richer schemes of cloning dinasaurs from bones and other specimens discovered by anthropologists,scenarios of time travel to other dimensions and planets pose possible other threats to our security.
Unless the government can show definitive PROOF that such THREATS do not exist and that the existence of suggestive phenominon that was presented to the public to substantiate those scenarios were created by Area 51 to support the development of the Space Program,the Missle Program, and the development of newer more devistating weapons for the destruction of mankind, all at the expense and detriment of the American people. Any further attempts to take away the only means for their self defense of these THREATS or threats from any existing Government can only result in more bloodshed than ALL the wars of the past combined.
The Government that went before you created these THREATS and unless you can make them fade into oblivion and be erased from the minds of the masses, Hitlers’ Holocaust will look like a Sunday School picnic in comparrison if you try to take their guns.