Washington governor signs voluntary gun ban law

[Shooter45]

Gov. Jay Inslee approved legislation Wednesday to allow people to sign over their gun rights and place themselves on the federal do-not-purchase list.
The bill, SB 5553, allows a person to voluntarily waive their firearm rights in a visit to their county clerk’s office. The measure passed the Senate 36-13 and the House 77-20 with sponsors promoting it as a partial solution to help stop suicides.
“There’s an impulsivity, and the bill is really designed to try and prevent that impulsive nature that can lead to a tragedy,” said state Sen. David Frockt, D-Seattle, who backed the bill.
The measure, now law, establishes a framework for a person who no longer wants to be able to own firearms. Those wanting to take advantage of the ability to snip their Second Amendment rights have to submit a form to their county clerk, who in turn is obligated to notify the state police within 24 hours. Authorities would then transmit the request to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, reporting the individual as a prohibited firearms possessor. A request could later be reeled back by the person after seven days. The process is mandated to be in place by January 2019.
As for Frockt, he had also backed a host of more restrictive gun bills this session, including SB 6049 to limit magazine capacity to 10 rounds, and SB 5444 to mandate owners of “assault weapons” acquire special permits requiring enhanced background checks. He was disappointed the other proposals didn’t make it out of Olympia.
Inslee signed a bump stock ban earlier this month.

http://www.guns.com/2018/03/23/washi...ban-law-video/

[Irving]

All postal workers should be required to do this to keep their jobs.

[crays]

Yeah... because THAT system is not riddled with potential for abuse.

FFS

[GeorgeandSugar]

Silly! Idiotic! More of the same Democrat solutions to problems they created in the first place. This will solve nothing in my mind. It sounds good on paper and virtue signaling, but IMHO people will step back from this when it comes to signing away their rights, suicide or not. I could be wrong.

[Skip]

Dim logic...

A person is too impulsive and unstable to purchase a gun
But has the presence of mind to go the county and put himself on the do-not-buy list because that's exactly what suicidal people think about; all the ways to not commit suicide while they're contemplating committing suicide.

Did he drive there?
Pass any liquor stores? Pharmacies? Bridges (over or under in FL)?


And after filing out the paperwork, the county clerk lets the suicidal person just... leave? To go back into the world and be impulsive and unstable.


They aren't this stupid so I'm assuming they are setting up the mechanism precisely for abuse. It's a framework for someone who isn't LE to submit a disqualifying record to NICS.

[bczandm]

I bet I know how this will be used by the courts. You can go to jail for a year for a minor firearms infraction....or voluntarily give up you right to own a firearm.

[Zundfolge]

Its dumb but if I lived in Washington I'd start pestering every anti-gun idiot I knew to "put your money where your mouth is and put yourself on the list".

[BPTactical]

Never go full retard.






Washington went full, industrial strength retard.