Washington SB 5985 (2023/2024) - Firearms background check program

[ATCclears]

SB 5985 continues to progress.

 

[WEE]

SB 5985 continues to progress.

Thank you for continuing to provide updates on the SB's.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

I am not sure but this Senate Bill seems to be tightening existing language or closing a few loopholes.

Washington State Legislature

app.leg.wa.gov

Adds a mental health evaluation component for any application to buy a handgun (page 14) among other things...

c) A signed application for the purchase or transfer of a firearm frame or receiver shall constitute a waiver of confidentiality and written request that the health care authority, mental health institutions, and other health care facilities release, to an inquiring court, law enforcement agency, or ((the state)) the Washington state patrol firearms background check program, information relevant to the applicant's eligibility to possess a firearm. Any mental health information received by a court, law enforcement agency, or ((the state)) the Washington state patrol firearms background check program pursuant to this section shall not be disclosed except as provided in RCW 42.56.240(4).

 

[Ducati_Meister]

With these laws, I always want to know what aren't they telling us aka some poison pill legislation in somewhere within the law like a lot of onerous anti gun laws do.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

With these laws, I always want to know what aren't they telling us aka some poison pill legislation in somewhere within the law like a lot of onerous anti gun laws do.

For WA there is a built in poison-pill (imo) that was passed in 2018. The law says gun owners have to pass yearly background checks in order to keep guns they already have. If people are found ineligible for any reason their guns can be confiscated. Therefore if they were to enforce this law then any of the reasons they have added since 2018 (including any future reasons/laws) is grounds to confiscate all your existing firearms.

Imo one has to think about what they legally can do in the future based on the laws, not just from a frame of reference of what has happened in the past. They are pushing the boundaries every year and getting bolder and bolder. Fe this year they are basically trying to shut down every FFL in the state. A decade ago we would have thought that was nearly impossible.

 

[Ducati_Meister]

For WA there is a built in poison-pill (imo) that was passed in 2018. The law says gun owners have to pass yearly background checks in order to keep guns they already have. If people are found ineligible for any reason their guns can be confiscated. Therefore if they were to enforce this law then any of the reasons they have added since 2018 (including any future reasons/laws) is grounds to confiscate all your existing firearms.

Imo one has to think about what they legally can do in the future based on the laws, not just from a frame of reference of what has happened in the past. They are pushing the boundaries every year and getting bolder and bolder. Fe this year they are basically trying to shut down every FFL in the state. A decade ago we would have thought that was nearly impossible.

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I heard about that bulls**t. What a heinous way to skirt the lines of confiscation efforts.