Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Another dumb law passed.

Washington becomes the 10th state to restrict semiautomatic possession through as stupid feature list.

The House concurred with a floor amendment to House Bill 1240 that was added in the Senate, voting 56-42 to approve it on April 19. The amendment will allow gun manufacturers to sell inventory already in stock prior to Jan. 1, 2023, and only to out-of-state clientele for 90 days after the bill goes into effect. So vendors aren’t totally hosed, just mostly.
At a national level, I think a new Assault Weapons Ban is a non-starter because even if one could squeak past the House (highly unlikely in the current climate), I just can't see it securing enough votes to get past a filibuster in the Senate.

My worry is that, should an AWB case make it before the Supremes, they may decide that something like an "evil feature list" and/or 10-round magazine capacity limits are a reasonable place to slice the RKBA baby in half, and leave that manner of regulation to the states.

So if that happens, you'd have nation-wide Shall Issue (with varying degrees of onerousness) post-Bruen, but some states will be able to restrict your carry choices to revolvers and low-cap pistols.

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