As California continues to fall to the weigh-side due to far-left policies making the state increasingly unlivable, the states these ex-Californians are fleeing to are passing the very policies that destroyed their former home.
In recent years, tens of thousands of Californians have fled to Washington State, and in recent days the state has passed a ban on firearm magazines over 10-rounds in response.
Senate Bill 4078 prohibits “the manufacture, importation, distribution, selling, and offering for sale of large capacity magazines, and by providing limited exemptions applicable to licensed firearms manufacturers and dealers for purposes of sale to armed forces branches and law enforcement agencies for purposes of sale or transfer outside the state.”
Of course, the “large capacity magazines” they are referring to are actually standard capacity magazines, considering that most handguns and rifles sold in America today come standard with magazines over 10 rounds, making this as much a “standard capacity magazine ban” than a “high capacity” ban.
This bill previously passed that State Senate, and following more than three hours of debate, the Washington House of Representatives agreed, voting to pass the measure 55-42. Now the bill will be placed on the desk of the state’s virulent anti-gun Governor Jay Inslee, where it will almost certainly be signed into law.
Once signed, the bill will go into effect on July 1st, assuming that it doesn’t face a court challenge before then.
Sponsored by Democrat Sen. Marko Liias, at the request of the state’s Attorney General’s office, the bill passed the Senate on Feb. 9th of this year, before being turned over to the House.
During debate, there were a number of amendments proposed, including one sponsored by Democrat Rep. Kirsten Harris-Talley from Seattle, who attempted to modify the definition of “high-capacity” to 15 rounds for a pistol. Her amendment ultimately failed.
Her reasoning was based on the racist idea that “white supremacists” and racist police are stockpiling weapons against black people, and that the bill would be used to justify police violence against black people, unless the 15-round increase was added to the bill. Because somehow that makes sense in her mind.
“My neighbors are concerned that pieces of this bill are not going to address the fact that we have stockpiles of guns and ammunition already in the state,” Harris-Talley said. “They want to know that in the face of police violence, which is also gun violence, and other types of white supremacy…that they can protect themselves.”
Republicans tried to defeat the measure, but they clearly lost the fight long before the bill hit the floor.
“This bill is about the wrong people,” said Minority House Leader Rep. J.T. Wilcox, R-Yelm. “This bill is dealing with all the folks that are going to be law-abiding.”
“An attack on one is an attack on all of them,” Wilcox continued. “If we diminish the Second Amendment today, I think that makes it a lot easier to diminish the First Amendment.”
He’s right. But with the state being overrun by left-wing voters, his arguments mean very little.
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