I have been to MULITPLE demo shoot with many many police depts where they shoot full autos and silenced weapons. We even have video of several LE officers as well as police chiefs shooting with silencers on guns right along side us in this state. There is no exemption for LE according to RCW 9.41.250.
Sorry but I do not agree with you at all. So even though I am fully within my rights to do something, I shouldn't? Maybe I should never carry a gun at all, because although most police officers know that concealed and open carry are both perfectly legal in our state, just knowing that some officers are against the legal carry of firearms by otherwise law abiding citezens, I should leave it at home to protect myself against the harrassment of an unedjucated LE?
One of the benefits of the WA state suppressor law is that companies that make tactical gear in the area like to have them on their weapons to simulate "tac" situations or make it look cooler to sell their products. So what you are saying is that a silencer, legally owned by a corporation, should not be taken with, attatched to guns to venders to display everything from flash hiders to slings and flashlight mounts?
Maybe you should call PWS or Tactical Link and tell them not to use their displays to help sell products. See how that goes for you.
just because you've been with some LE persons shooting suppressed weapons by no means makes it legal in WA. just means that the LE didn't think it illegal enough to do something about it. i bet those same corporations take those same guns with suppressors mounted to them to public shooting places on weekends without company reps and whatnot with them too? displaying a suppressor mounted to a weapon in a show of some sort is completely different than your average citizen taking his suppressor to a local shooting spot where he at least plans on shooting weapons.
there are also many thousands of cases across the country involving open carry, concealed carry, and any other kind of carry where the weapons are confiscated, the person is arrested, or harrassed in some way shape of form by some LE that isn't completely educated about the laws conerning it.
like it or not you as a private citizen with a legally owned(but completely illegal to use within the state) suppressor are inviting trouble upon yourself by taking said suppressor with you while plinking, target shooting or whatever
and as a side note, the LEO's are mainly involved with enforcing WA law correct? so if they themselves are participating in what could potentially be an illegal act it makes it no more legal(or illegal for that matter) for you to participate along with them