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Ask the WAC if they are willing to lobby for this bill. One WAC officer I talked to refused because he says it would be futile. His attitude is why WA is not a gun friendly state.
Ranb
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I have written to all of the bill 1604 sponsors. Upthegrove says he has written a letter to Pedersen asking him to give the bill a hearing next session. This is the most promising (but inadequate) development so far.
I also got a reply from Joel Kretz, one of other co-sponsors. His answer to my request to ask Pedersen to give bill 1604 a hearing was " Unfortunately with the current makeup of the legislature it will be difficult to move forward with this bill." If you read between the lines then this actually means "I will not push this bill because I do not care about gun owners."
Kretz actually told me he supports the right to keep and bear arms. He sure has a ridiculous way of showing it. If anyone here is in his district, you might want to ask him why he claims to support the RKBA but is not willing to push his own gun rights bill.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/house/representatives/Pages/kretz.aspx
Ranb
I did not post the entire exchange of e-mail as I did not ask his permission to do so. But I did ask him to tell me what he was doing to push the bill. It turns out he is doing nothing.
Maybe I am wrong, but when a person sponsors a bill, aren't they supposed to take an interest in the bill and make an effort to get it passed? Kertz appears to be doing nothing because (in his own words) it is too hard to do so. That is a bunch of crap as far as I am concerned. He gets to posture as a man fighting for the rights of gun owners by putting his name on a pro-gun bill, but will not even admit to having any intention of doing anything to get it passed, or even get it out of committee.
Being honest is not enough. I believe it was this kind of effort that was put into keeping SBR's and SBS's legal in Washington State. It was this kind of effort that makes it a felony to merely possess an SBR/SBS in WA now.
Ranb