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What you are ignoring is that possession in CA was grandfathered until the law Duncan challenged became effective. So, a CA LEO would have needed some evidence to conclude that any particular magazine was not a grandfathered magazine before seizing it. And, of course, there are now the freedom week magazines to contend with. Because the WA law will not make possession unlawful, there would need to be more than mere possession for a LEO to seize a large capacity magazine from a WA resident. What would be needed is evidence of importation or distribution on or after July 1, 2022, and for a charge of importation there would need to be some evidence that the magazine had not been removed from WA to show that it had been unlawfully imported. The tricky part will be with non residents because it would not be unreasonable to assume that the magazines had crossed the WA - OR or WA - ID boarder. But there would still be the issue of whether or not those magazines had been possessed by the non resident in WA prior to July 1, 2022.Well, fellas. I lived under the California mag ban for 18 years before pulling stumps for the PNW and in all that time I know of no honest citizen getting pulled over and searched for illegal magazines.. Any busts that occurred involving magazines were always part of some larger issue such as a DUI or known felon getting pulled over and searched. There were no magazine checkpoints on the road or neighborhood sweeps--EVER! I see no reason to think it will be any different here.
So...Don't be an idiot and the cops won't even look at you.
Everyone here is overthinking themselves into a tizzy. Just go about your normal daily life and the police etc. will be content to ignore this magazine ban as much as I will. The trick to this is the same as most of life--Don't be an bubblegum and you'll be fine.
Peace
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