Is History Rhyming?

Anyone else getting the feeling Pelosi wants to be known to history as "Olivia Cromwell"?

— Drang (@DWDrang) January 20, 2019

GOAL Post 2018-8

I've skipped the last couple of GOAL Posts, they are linked in the right-hand sidebar. 

But I felt that this week's was important to post, if only for Joe's comments on the recent events in Florida.

As usual, minor editing for formatting, a couple of typos or elisions from the original are called out with "{sic}".

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FROM: wa-ccw@yahoogroups.com (Joe Waldron)

TO: undisclosed recipients

SENT: Fri 2/23/2018 5:50 PM

SUBJECT: GOAL Post 2018-8

Legislative Update from Olympia23 February 2018

• BILLS MOVE
• NO PUBLIC HEARINGS NEXT WEEK
• CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
• TWO WEEKS LEFT IN SESSION
• FLORIDA SHOOTING

HB 2363 (drone delivery of contraband) passed out of Senate Law & Justice to Senate Rules awaiting a floor vote. HB 2519 (return of CPLs) also passed out of Senate Law & Justice to Rules, but not before they amended the bill to it’s original form, removing the language that allowed current and former military members aged 18-20 to apply for and receive a concealed pistol license (several states with age 21 CPL requirements have opened them up to military members over 18). ed {sic} on the House floor to reimburse those owners who surrender them to police. SB 5553 (suicidal, waiver of firearm rights) passed out of the House on a77-20 vote with one excused.SB 5992 (bump stock ban) passed out of the House on a 56-41 vote also. The bill was amended to create a buyback program for banned bump stocks. Seven other amendments to limit the impact of the bill failed.SB 6298 (DV harassment firearms ban) passed out of the House Judiciary committee with an important amendment. Back in 1994, when many DV-related misdemeanors were made firearm disqualifiers, it was retroactive – a listed DV-related conviction at any time in the past prohibited future possession of firearms.SB 6298 was amended to allow only DV harassment convictions after this law takes effect to act as a disqualifier.

Unfortunately, the amendment is still lipstick on a pig. No misdemeanor conviction of any law should allow denial of a fundamental, enumerated right listed in the Constitution. Period. Add to that the common he said, she said nature of many of these DV offenses, in many cases with no physical proof offered.(We’ve been over this before: domestic violence is a serious issue and must not be tolerated, but if it’s that serious, make it a felony.)

No public hearings involving firearms are scheduled for next week. It’s all floor action now.

If a bill is amended in the second chamber and passes, it must go back to the original chamber to approve the change. If approval (another floor vote) is not granted, it goes to a conference committee composed of members from both chambers to iron out the difference(s). Then it goes back to both chambers for approval.

At this point, and we’re pretty far along in the session, it appears there will be no immediate, direct impact of the Florida shooting in Olympia. For now.

If you’ve been following the national news all this past week, it appears the only thing in the world that has happened is the Parkland, Florida school shooting. The overwhelming media focus is on gun control, calling for bans on AR-15s and other “assault weapons,” raising the age to purchase ”assault weapons,” or in some cases, all firearms, to 21.Suggestions have also been made by some to arm SOME teachers (the establishment doesn’t like that, nor do teachers’ unions), or to provide for more school resource officers. The outcome remains to be seen.

A couple of things of note, though. The call for more gun control seems to be exceptionally-well organized. And funded. One Parkland survivor invited to attend a CNN episode on the shooting says he was denied the opportunity to ask the questions he wanted to ask, and instead was given a scripted question to ask. More and more information has come out about the shooter and the incident. He was a long term “problem kid,” with many fellow students reporting major issues with him including threats, he was expelled from Parkland, the Broward County Sheriff’s deputies had made more than three dozen calls to his home in the past few years. Clearly red flags were being waved – and ignored. Then the FBI dropped the ball after the “kid” posted a You Tube comment that he wanted to become a “professional school shooter” (a comment alleged made at other times and places, too).

The worst failure here was the fact that they just revealed that the on-scene School Resource Officer stayed outside under cover when the shooting started, and remained outside for at least four minutes. The major lesson learned in 1999 after the Columbine, CO, school shooting is that you don’t wait outside to see how things develop, you immediately enter. It’s called “running to the sound of gunfire” and has been “school shooter” Rule #1 since 1999.The news is reporting that the officer has resigned, but most fail to add that he was actually allowed to retire.

Just before I closed this out, another local police department whose officers responded to the Parkland H.S. shooting are reporting that when they arrived on scene, four additional Broward County deputies were also outside the school, guns drawn, but not going inside.

Former Milwaukee County Sheriff, NRA Director and staunch pro-gun advocate made the comment that George Soros fingerprints are all over this. I tend not to buy into conspiracy theories for a variety of reasons, but the number of coincidences in this one certainly raise questions. (And the media now says these conspiracy theories originated with the Russian{sic}. Maybe the shooter was a Russian immigrant?)

BILL STATUS/GOAL POSITION:

{After the jump. DWD}

Short read of the day: The Gresham’s Law of Law

Recently started receiving the daily digest from Law & Liberty, maintained by the Liberty Fund, same folks who do the Online Library of Liberty.

Here's an example of why:

 The Gresham's Law of Law - Law & Liberty

by Mike Rappaport

In economics, Gresham’s Law is the law that say “bad money drives out good money.” In law, there is a similar law – deviant or problematic lawmaking drives out orthodox or legitimate lawmaking. This occurs in both constitutional law and administrative law.

Let’s start with constitutional law. The law of the Constitution is supposed to be established through the constitutional enactment process and the constitutional amendment process. Yet, it is well known that the Supreme Court does not always follow this legitimate method of constitutional law making, and instead changes or updates the Constitution through judicial lawmaking.

It is sometimes thought that these two types of lawmaking can coexist, but it has become increasingly clear that this is not the case. Since the New Deal, and especially as the Court has engaged in more judicial updating, the constitutional amendment process has atrophied. The main reason is that a constitutional amendment can only pass if it is supported by a consensus of the country. And developing a consensus may take a long time and may require compromise.

And then there's administrative law. Just as Constitutional Amendments don't happen due to Supreme Court rulings, Congress leaves most rule-making up to unaccountable bureaucrats.

Go read the whole thing, like I said, it's short.

QOTD, Blast From The Past Edition

Going back through old posts and saw that, on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, Tamara won the Internetz again with this:

The problem is that the .gov acts like there was strong encryption on the Constitution and they don't have the right key to read it.

 Really, it's been her Internetz all along and she just lets us use it, too. 

GOAL Post 2018-4

I'll continue posting these, at least for now. As usual, I've tried to clean up punctuation and the like, which does not necessarily copy from the email well. However, I have to go to work shortly, so I may have missed some. Sorry...

Also before the legislature, but not in the GOAL Post, HB2000, would legalize concealed carry of a fixed blade knife with a blade less than 6 inches.

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FROM: GOAL-WA (Joe Waldron)

TO: undisclosed recipients

SENT: Sat 1/27/2018 5:08 PM

SUBJECT: GOAL Post 2018-4

Legislative Update from Olympia 27 January 2018

SB 5992 PASSES SENATE

NEW BILLS FILED

ACTION ON BILLS

PUBLIC HEARING CONDUCTED

PUBLIC HEARINGS SCHEDULED

(Quick and dirty this week. I just got back on the redeye from the SHOT (Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trades) Show in Las Vegas. All kinds of new toys that our Dave Workman will be covering in future articles.)

SB 5992 (“bump stock ban) passed the Senate on a 29-20 vote. It now goes to House Judiciary for their consideration. Given that the bill had a couple of Republican co-sponsors and four Republican Senators voted “aye” on final passage, it will likely sail through the House and go to the governor. The impact of this is very limited, and if this is all that passes the legislature this session, we will be very lucky indeed.

SB 6415, by Sen. Hunt (D-22), and HB 2736, by Rep. Doglio (D-22), would require “express permission” from the homeowner before allowing a CPL holder carrying a concealed pistol in a residence.Violation is a misdemeanor plus FIVE YEARS’ LOSS OF CPL. “Express permission” is not further defined in the law. What constitutes “express?” Permission in writing? Video of owner granting permission? Court affidavit? Notarized statement?

The version of HB 1122 that passed out of House Judiciary last week was amended to follow the original language from HB 2319 introduced in 1997 (and gave rise to I-676 when it failed to pass the legislature that year). It drops the term “community endangerment” and returns to a form of reckless endangerment, it applies only to children who unlawfully access a firearm, and it defines “child” as anyone under the age of 18.

SB 5553 (suicide prevention, voluntary waiver of rights) passed out of the Senate January 24^th on a 49-0 vote. It now moves over to House Judiciary.

A public hearing on several gun bills was conducted by House Judiciary on Thursday, 25 January. Testimony, pro and con, was taken on HBs 2666 (repeal state preemption), 1387 (background check on “assault weapons”), 2422 (restrict/ban “high capacity” magazines), 2293 (banning firearms in day care facilities) and 2519 (return of seized CPLs). It is interesting to note that not only were the anti crowd turned out in orange t-shirts for enhanced visibility, but for the first time (to the best of my

recollection) pizza was catered in for this. But this was just a spontaneous grassroots turnout. Right! It’s nice to have millionaire sugar daddies.

The Senate Law & Justice committee will hold a public hearing on SB 6418 (possession of concealed firearm(s) in someone else’s residence) at 10:00 a.m. on January 30^th. Senate Law & Justice will consider SBs 6297 and 6298 in Executive Session (vote to pass out of committee) on Friday, February 2^nd , at 10:00 a.m.

BILL STATUS/GOAL POSITION:

GOAL Post 2018-3

That time of the week again. 

There seems to be a glitch in the original text, in the third paragraph, dealing with new proposed legislation. It is present in the original text; if Joe posts a correction or errata I will fix it. There are also a couple of legislators whose districts are missing from the list of bills, ditto.

As usual, I have made minor edits to the text for punctuation or style, but have made no changes to the actual text.

I had a bit of an unintentional discharge while putting this one together,and accidentally launched what was barely even a draft, so if you get this blog through a feed service, you may have had two versions show up. Apologies.

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FROM: GOAL WA (Joe Waldron)

TO: undisclosed recipients

SENT: Fri 1/19/2018 2:34 PM

SUBJECT: GOAL Post 2018-3

Legislative Update from Olympia19 January 2018

• LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR CORRECTION
• 1/15 SENATE GUN BILL HEARING
• NEW GUN BILLS FILED
• PUBLIC HEARINGS SCHEDULED
• ACTION ON GUN BILLS
• KIRO TV POLL
• NOT ALL DEMOCRATS ARE OUR ENEMIES

The correct date of the Fiscal committee cut-off is 6 February, not 5 February as reported last week.

The first big gun bill hearing was conducted by Senate Law & Justice on Monday, 15 January. There was a turnout of several hundred on both sides, with two overflow rooms filled with attendees (unfortunately the pro-gun lobby doesn’t have a billionaire sugar daddy who provides neat highly visible t-shirts – but most of us DO have gun-related ball caps, club badges, pins, etc.) It was an amazing display of ignorance about guns and gun laws by the pro-gun control side. But that doesn’t stop them and their billionaire allies from pushing for every restriction they can get through the system. The bills heard in public testimony included SBs 592 (trigger devices),6049 (magazine ban), 5444 (modern sporting rifle registration), 5463 (safe storage) and 6146 (preemption repeal). The entire hearing can be viewed on TVWashington at https://www.tvw.org/watch/?eventID=2018011154.

Several new gun bills were filed this week... and one I missed last week! SB 6173, by Sen. Takko (D-19) is the counterpart of HB 2329 and strengthens privacy protections for CPL holders (our esteemed Attorney General wants to open CPL information to the public, as it was prior to 1993). HB 2422, by Rep. Peterson (D-21) is similar to SB 1049 and bans high capacity magazines… with exceptions. HB 2529 by Rep. Lovick (D-44) imposes the same background check (re-check requirement on CPLs that have been seized as previous law does was seized firearms, HB 2666, by Rep. Macri (D-43) is the companion bill to SB 6146, repealing state preemption of firearms regulation. SB 6298, by Sen. Dhingra (D-45), would add any conviction for domestic violence harassment to the list of violations forfeiting firearm rights. It’s bad enough that for more than ten years now we have been denying a fundamental, enumerated right to people convicted of what are essentially minor crimes. This is even more egregious I on that most domestic harassment cases consist of largely “he said-she said” testimony, and in today’s climate, the court usually errs on the side of the woman.

Two public hearings on gun bills will be conducted next week. At 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, 23 January, the Senate Law & Justice Committee will take testimony on SBs 6297 and 6298 (banning possession of firearms for those with a history of violence or who have been convicted of domestic harassment). At 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, 25 January, the House Judiciary Committee will take testimony on HBs 2519 (return of seized CPLs), 2293 (daycare firearm ban), 1387 (a/w registration), 2422 (hi-cap mag ban) and 2666 (preemption repeal). Again, a strong turn-out carries a message all its own. Better yet, if you can make it to Oly for the hearing, be sure to wear some clearly pro-gun item of clothing (not camouflage!) such as a ball cap, club membership badge, etc. (If you have prepared testimony, be sure to carry a spare copy with you and leave it with committee staff.)

SB 5992 (trigger devices) passed out of the Senate Law & Justice Committee on Tuesday and is now on the Senate floor calendar awaiting final passage from the Senate. They will likely vote on it next week.

A KIRO TV poll conducted earlier this week showed 66% of respondents do NOT support a ban on bump stocks. I went back a couple of days later to see if it had changed – and it HAD changed… it was pulled!

Not all Republicans are our friends, and not all Democrats are our enemies. The link below goes to a great article about two pro-gun Democrats (and yes, they are solidly pro-gun, as are a few others; I’ve worked closely with both of them for several years). http://tdn.com/news/local/takko-and-blake-could-scuttle-raft-of-gun-control-bills/article_f46063f4-f0e8-576a-928d-d32ba6060cfd.html

BILL NUMBER/SUBJECT/SPONSOR/STATUS/GOAL POSITION:

GOAL Post 2017-Special 1

Olympia is too busy trying to set new records for tax rates to take further action on gun rights... or so it seems.

Speaking of Olympia,  May Day in Seattle was pretty anticlimactic, but the protesters in Olympia found themselves getting herded by pepperball shooting cops, and then getting ambushed by rock throwing homeless people...

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From: GOAL WA (goalwa@cox.net (Joe Waldron)

To: undisclosed recipients

Sent: Fri 5/5/2017 6:02 PM

Subject: GOAL Post 2017-Special 1

Legislative Update from Olympia 5 May 2017

NO ACTION ON BILLS

I was at the annual NRA convention and meetings in Atlanta last Friday, but nothing happened anyway!

Governor Inslee signed HB 1100 (CPL renewal postcard) a week before the session ended. The first postcards should go out in late summer (they have to set up the system first).

Still awaiting the governor’s signature are HB 1501 (NICS denial police notification), HB 1612 (suicide prevention), SB 5268 (CPL renewal e-mail notification) and SB 5552 (limited I-594 background check exemptions. (Correction, SB 5268 did squeak out just before the regular session ended.)

The governor has 20 days to act on bills after the session ends. That means he has until 13 May to take action on the four bills listed above. Governor Inslee has three options available: he can sign a bill into law; he can veto an entire bill or part of a bill, in which case the legislature has the opportunity to override on the next session; or he can take no action, in which case the bill becomes law anyway. Why decline to take action? Maybe the governor doesn’t like it, but doesn’t feel it is important enough to veto. This is the guy who wants $8 billion in new taxes, despite the fact that the Republican-controlled Senate passed a balanced operating budget.

At this point, 12 days into the up-to-30-day special session, no gun bills have been pulled back out, nor have new bills been filed.

As next Saturday is the last day the governor can act on bills, I’ll likely get the next GOAL Post out over next weekend.

BILL NUMBER	TOPIC	SPONSOR	STATUS
SHB 1100	CPL renewal notice	Blake (D-19)	Governor signed
HB 1501	Illegal purchase of firearms	Hansen (D-23)	To Gov
2SHB 1612	Suicide prevention	Orwall (D-33)	To Gov
SB 5268	CPL renewal notice	Takko (D-19)	To Gov
SB 5552	Certain exemptions to I-594	Pedersen (D-43)	To Gov

PUBLIC HEARINGS SCHEDULED: None

GOAL Post 2017-16

And, once again they (Washington State Legiscritters) fail to do their job and come up with a budget on time. 

Of course, that's partly because the Progressives running the state really, really can't stand the fact that they aren't allowed to impose an Income Tax on those they deem to be earning more than their fair share.

As a side note, IIRC Federal income tax as it was originally imposed under Woodrow Wilson was something like a 2% rate on earnings over $250,000, which meant that at first it was only on "The 1%."

Sounds reasonable to "the 99%", but, well, it's government, so look how that worked out.

Anyway. It occurs to me that perhaps I should make it clear (again) that Joe Waldron sends this out in an email, and I just re-transmit it as a blog post, in accordance with the guidelines at the end of every post. Sometimes I make slight formatting changes, but the only "textual" changes I make are to fix spelling or punctuation. I've been doing this for years, and they haven't said anything yet, So I guess I'm OK...

Finally, and congratulations to my friend Boyd Kneeland for his new position as Projects Director with the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

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From: Joe Waldron for GOAL WA 

To: undisclosed recipients

Sent: Fri 4/21/2017 5:19 PM

Subject: GOAL Post 2017-16

Legislative Update from Olympia 21 April 2017

• SINE DIE? IT’S OVER, SORT OF
• SPECIAL SESSION
• HB 1100 SIGNED BY GOV 19 APRIL
• HB 1501 REVIVED, PASSES
• BILLS AWAITING GOV SIGNATURE
• GOAL POST WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE SPECIAL SESSION

The reason for the long (105 day) session is to give legislators time to develop an operating budget for the state. Since 2010, they have not been able to finish this work on time and have had to go into special sessions of 30 days (maximum) each. The major problem here is split control of the legislature – Majority Coalition Senate and Democrat House. One presents a balanced budget, the other wants major tax increases – I’ll let you guess which. (Interesting to note that back in the late 1990s, the Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton worked together to pass balanced budgets. That’s when you had a pragmatic chief executive that was willing to work with Republicans.)

Whether the legislature drags it out until Sunday night (Day 105) or shuts down earlier is irrelevant as far as the gun issue is concerned. The governor says he will call a special session to start Monday, 24 April to resolve the budget impasse. Let’s hope they can solve it in 30 days.

HB 1100 (CPL renewal notice) was signed by the Governor on 19 April – Patriot’s Day. If a bill reaches the governor’s desk more than five days before the end of the session, he has five days to sign it. If it reaches him with five days or less, he has 20 days after the end of the session to sign.

SB 5268 was rendered moot as HB 1100, it’s House duplicate bill, went to the Governor’s 1612, 1501 and SB 5552 await the governor’s signature.

To visit the governor’s web site where they report action taken on bills, visit: http://www.governor.wa.gov/office-governor/official-actions/bill-action

I’ll continue to publish GOAL Post through the special session. Remember, when the new session convenes, it is not limited to the reason for the session – in this case passage of an operating budget – but any bill from the previous session may be called up. So once again your gun rights are at risk.

I’ll be at the NRA annual meeting and convention in Atlanta 27-30 April. I’ll probably publish GOAL Post upon return.

BILL #	Subject	Sponsor	STATUS	GOAL POSITION:
SHB 1100	CPL renewal notice	Blake (D-19)	Governor signed	SUPPORT
HB 1501	Illegal purchase of firearms	Hansen (D-23)	To Gov	SUPPORT
2SHB 1612	Suicide prevention	Orwall (D-33)	To Gov	SUPPORT
SB 5268	CPL renewal notice	Takko (D-19)	Died	SUPPORT
SB 5552	Certain exemptions to I-594	Pedersen (D-43)	To Gov	SUPPORT

GOAL Post 2017-10

Been out of contact, so this is days late.

If that bothers you, subscription information is at the end of Joe's email. Just sayin'...

With all the bills dropped,  I didn't really need to insert a break this time.

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FROM: GOAL WA <goalwa@cox.net>  (Joe Waldron)

TO: undisclosed recipients

SENT: Fri 3/10/2017 5:36 PM

SUBJECT: GOAL Post 2017-10

Legislative Update from Olympia, 10 March 2017

CHAMBER CUT-OFF PASSES, MORE BILLS DIE

BILL TRACKING LIST NARROWED

PUBLIC HEARINGS SCHEDULED

IT’S NOT OVER TIL IT’S OVER

MOUNT RAINIER FRIENDS OF NRA BANQUET

5 p.m. on Wednesday was chamber cut-off: House bills that had not passed out of the House, and Senate bills that had not passed out of the Senate, died for the session. We are now down to a very manageable list of five bills to follow. 34 gun bills were filed this year, nowhere near the 60+ filed in the last two-year biennium. And as is typical, most never passed the half-way mark.

As the 5 o’clock bell rang in Olympia on Wednesday, the House still hadn’t reached HBs 1122, 1483 and 1731.The Senate stopped short of SB 5506.So those bills should be considered dead for the session, but the Senate version of HB 1731, SB 5552, is still running in the House. Keep in mind, too, that this is the first year of a biennium, meaning all the bills filed this year that did not make it can be called back next year. Or during any special session.

And now there are five. HB 1100, HB 1501, HB 1612, SB 5268 and SB 5552Two of the bills are essentially duplicates: HB 1100 and SB 5268 both mandate mailing a renewal notice 90 days before a CPL expires, a long overdue fix. The HB 1100 was amended in the House, so it will have to be reconciled with SB 5268 in the next four weeks. HB 1501 requires FFLs to notify the State Patrol of NICS denials, who are then directed to initiate an investigation (many/most of which will go nowhere because of misidentifications). HB 1612 promotes suicide awareness education. And SB5552 is the Senate version of the minor tweaks to I-594 background checks (e.g. no check required for in-laws, or for loans at the range where the owner stays with the firearm).

Not much of a positive outcome midway through, but if you look at all the anti-gun bills filed, it’s encouraging to see none got traction. We’re not going to see pro-gun bills sail through until a pro-gun House is put in place to match a pro-gun Senate.

Public hearings will be conducted on HB 1612 and SB 5268.SB 5552 will be subject to an executive session (committee vote). Details below.

We’re halfway through the session, and already the bill list is down to five. But it’s not over yet. And should a shooting incident occur that “fits” one of these bills, you can expect them to try and revive it. The fat lady doesn’t sing until midnight on 23 April!

The Mount Rainier chapter of Friends of NRA will conduct its 24^th annual Friends of NRA dinner and auction at the Emerald Queen Casino Conference Center in Fife on Saturday, April 8th. Doors open at 4:00 p.m. and dinner starts at 7:00. Nearly three dozen guns and hundreds of other prizes will be raffled off. If you have never attended one, I strongly urge you to consider it. It’s a great event for a fun cause. For additional information call (253) 841-7113 or e-mail “visit2ndamd@comcast.net.”

BILL#	SUBJECT	SPONSOR	STATUS	GOAL POSITION:
SHB 1100	CPL renewal notice	Blake (D-19)	S. L&J	SUPPORT
SHB 1122	Safe storage of firearms	Kagi (D-32)	DIED	OPPOSE
HB 1483	Allows destruction of forfeited firearms	Lovick (D-44)	DIED	OPPOSE
HB 1501	Illegal purchase of firearms	Hansen (D-23)	S. L&J	SUPPORT
2SHB 1612	Suicide prevention	Orwall (D-33)	S. HumSer	SUPPORT
SB 5268	CPL renewal notice	Takko (D-19)	H. Jud.	SUPPORT
SSB 5506	Transfer of firearms at non-profit events	Zeiger (R-25)	DIED	SUPPORT
SB 5552	Certain exemptions to I-594	Pedersen (D-43)	H. Jud	SUPPORT

L&J = Law & Justice, Jud = Judiciary, HumSer = Human Services, Aprop = Appropriations, Fin = Finance, W&M = Ways & Means “S” before a bill number indicates Substitute (amended).

PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED:

14 Mar Senate Human Services Senate Hearing Room “2“John A. Cherberg Bldg 1:30 p.m. HB 1612

15 Mar House Judiciary House Hearing Room “A” John L. O’Brien Bldg 8:00 a.m.SB 5268

16 Mar House Judiciary House Hearing Room “A” John L. O’Brien Bldg 1:30 p.m.SB 5552(executive session)

LEGISLATIVE HOT LINE: You may reach your Representatives and Senator by calling the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-562-6000.Toll free!!!The hearing impaired may obtain TDD access at 1-800-635-9993.Also toll free!!!

1-800-562-6000TDD 1-800-635-9993

OTHER DATA: Copies of pending legislation (bills), legislative schedules and other information are available on the legislature's web site at "www.leg.wa.gov". Bills are available in Acrobat (.pdf) format. You may download a free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe's web site (http://www.adobe.com). You may also obtain hard copy bills, initiatives, etc., in the mail from the Legislative Bill Room FREE OF CHARGE by calling 1-360-786-7573.Copies of bills may also be ordered toll free by calling the Legislative Hotline at (800) 562-6000.You may also hear floor and committee hearing action live at http://www.tvw.org/ (you need "RealAudio" to do this, available free at the TVW web site). Each bill’s web page contains a link to any public hearing at the bottom of the page.

By reading the House and Senate "bill reports" (hbr, sbr) for each bill, you can see how individual committee members voted. By reading the "roll call" for each bill, you can see how the entire House or Senate voted on any bill. The beauty of the web site is that ALL this information is available, on line, to any citizen.

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Upcoming WAC gun show(s):

·        Puyallup25-26 March

·        Puyallup29-30 April

"The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men."

Article 1, Section 24

Constitution of the State of Washington

Copyright 2017 Gun Owners Action League of WA

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