THREE EASY STEPS!
STEP 1: Visit this link to leave a comment on HB1164: https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/1164
This is the HOUSE Bill to ban magazines. Enter your address, click Verify District, select ALL your legislators with REP in front of their name (House), enter your contact information, click OPPOSE, and paste your comments (talking points below). Then click SEND COMMENT.
STEP 2: Visit this link to leave a comment on SB5078: https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/5078
This is the companion SENATE bill to ban magazines. Repeat the same process as above, but select your legislators with SEN in front of their name (Senate).
TALKING POINTS
Please oppose HB 1165 (or SB 5078) relating to high capacity magazines. Magazine restrictions present a safety issue for the citizens of the State of Washington and are unconstitutional (District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570)
- There is no data to support magazine capacity restrictions having any impact on public safety.
- These bills would be in direct conflict of law on day one with the US 9th District Court ruling (Duncan vs Becerra, CA 2018), which determined magazine restrictions an unconstitutional restriction.
- Magazine restrictions disproportionately affect low-income, racial, and ethnic minorities, the elderly, and people with disabilities who rely on the current standard capacity of magazines when defending themselves from multiple assailants.
- Criminals by definition do not comply with the law and will always find a way to gain access to high capacity magazines. This bill puts more firepower into the streets while restricting law-abiding citizens’ ability to defend themselves and their loved-ones with equal protection.
- This bill puts unnecessary financial burden on our citizens living in low-economic neighborhoods, as they would have to purchase new magazines to conform to the proposed bill. This effectively renders those affected less safe.
Feel free to add your own points as well.
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Thanks for the info & opportunity to comment
A ban on magazines capacity is ban on American Rights. It will do nothing to minimize crime. Criminals do not follow laws. This bill will only take away the rights of law abiding citizens. This bill is nothing more than an excuse to take right away from gun owners by people who do not like guns. This bill is an attack on gun rights, it’s an attempt to chip away at the right of gun owners until they have accomplished their true goal which is a complete ban of all guns.
This ban will do nothing to curb violence, reduce crime but rather was written to make anti-gun grabbers FEEL better and work to get closer to their obvious Ultimate goal.
I oppose all gun control measures, they have no say in this due to the chop situation last summer. Thugs had guns with high cap mags. These folks cannot posses any thing like this if you are a felon but may Hensley just said that’s news to me, then smirked about it. This is a joke. Plus open carry has been on the state law books for years. I have not seen any issues at at all with this I carry a pistol while hunting and in camp. I have had situations to were if I was not armed I may not be here right now. Let’s quit the
Emotional stuff and everyone’s a victim stuff. That’s why I preferred to be armed, so I’m not a victim of a violent life threatening attack. I’ve been around firearms and trained safety courses in the past have never had and issue. Lock up felons when they are in possession of any firearms related items. Leave the the law abiding alone, don’t mess with state or federal constitutions. Enough is is enough. You all work for us , we not work for you. You as a representative are an employee of the people. just remember this.
It is illegal to rob a store. Guess who doesn’t care? Criminals. It is illegal to steal a car. Guess who doesn’t care? Criminals. It is illegal for a felon to own a fire arm. Guess who doesn’t care? A CRIMINAL. Get the picture?