There was an article published on February 16 in the Seattle Times about police coming into homes to inspect for guns. Seems Senator Ed Murray, D-Seattle, the prime sponsor of a bill that allowed police to come into a home, now thinks that may be going a little too far. He did add that he came to realize that an assault weapons ban has little chance of passing, but put in a bill more as, "a general statement, as a guiding light of where we need to go." Without sweating the details.
The details would include it’s unconstitutional. What the eight page bill advocated was that anyone who purchased said weapons would have to store them safely and the sheriff of the county may, no more than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance. That simply means that police could come into a home and poke around without a warrant. Failure to comply could get one up to a year in jail.
I do not believe that any sane person does not want gun safety - especially gun owners. But the extremists are not hitting on all cylinders with radical approaches like this. "A guiding light of where we need to go." It would be fun to watch a sheriff poke around in the Senator’s house, even if he doesn’t own a gun.
This would never be a problem in East Texas. We’d just stock up some donuts and coffee and when the officers arrived, we might have a discussion about what ammo works best on feral hogs.
Should such a law ever come to pass, try not to laugh when the cop shows up.
They hate it when you laugh.
PMO
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