"One piece of fascist legislation, to go"

Denny Westneat: Dems keep shooting themselves in foot | Local News | The Seattle Times

Is there some gremlin that creeps into the Democrats’ bill-writing room to slip in nutty, unconstitutional clauses?
As it turns out, in a sense, there is. It’s part of an increasingly popular, fast-food-franchise-like practice called “model legislation.” Special-interest groups write up their dream bills and then shop them to statehouses around the country.

Which would explain why almost identical legislation pops up in multiple states.

What leads to this issue, of course, is the recent "assault weapon" ban bill introduced in Olympia, Senate Bill 5737, which has been introduced several times, and each time included a provision calling for home invasions inspections by the county sheriff to make sure you have no unauthorized guns, and what you do have are stored in accordance with whatever nanny-state rules.

The idiots responsible claim they had no idea that provision was there.

So ... why does it keep coming up? Is there some gremlin that creeps into the Democrats’ bill-writing room to slip in nutty, unconstitutional clauses?
As it turns out, in a sense, there is. It’s part of an increasingly popular, fast-food-franchise-like practice called “model legislation.” Special-interest groups write up their dream bills and then shop them to statehouses around the country.
...This police-search provision came from a left-wing version — a model assault-weapons ban written by the Brady Campaign and the San Francisco-based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Our bill tracks almost word for word with bills introduced in 2004 in Michigan and a few other states, as well as in 2005 here. At the time, the gun-control group had put out a 73-page guide called “Banning Assault Weapons — A Legal Primer for State and Local Action” in which it offered sample language, including this same police-search provision.

Sheesh.  Can you imagine the uproar if legislation written by the NRA was being debated?