WA residents, here we go again.

[Totem Polar]

I bought a lifetime supply of magazines for each gun that I want to carry for defensive purposes. I am also working on learning revolvers.

There are no effective WA focused 2A groups that I am aware of it.

I am considering on moving from WA, but the wife is here for 6 more years before she retires.

There is another aspect to (in my view) all this nannyist, legislative fuckery going on—which is ultimately not good at all, but still in play: the blunting of respect for the rule of law. To wit: in the urban areas, folks are still following the governor’s mandates. I can tell you though, that as soon as one leaves the downtown core in Spokane, it becomes clear that everyone is done with the mask mandate. I just played a concert at an outlying local venue that will remain nameless, and nobody—not the owners, the staff, the performers, or the audience wore masks at any point.

The general consensus—after 2 doses and in some cases a booster—is F Inslee. And this is an artsy, left-leaning crowd, in total.

What this has to do with the 2A stuff is the precedent for wholesale non compliance. That bell can’t be un-rung. Between the high-profile, relative lawlessness on Seattle city streets of late, and this mask deal that is sticking around like a case of herpes, there is most def a diminished respect for the legislative and executive in most counties.

Again, this does not bode well long-term, but it does mean that I’m going to send my emails, buy another redundant 10-pack of PMag GL17s for my stable of adult-sized G locks, and press on.

Sad that it’s come to that, but that’s the hand we’ve been dealt, as of Dec 2021 anno domini.

All of which is to say, I like your little slice of heaven. May as well keep it. JMO, OMMV, etc. etc.

[okie john]

My brother @Totem Polar summed it up well. I believe that blue politicians will always have bad ideas, but their ability to put them into practice is dropping quickly in our state and nationally.

Defund the police and other magical thinking has ruined Washington cities. Fortunately, the rot has now crept into leafy suburbs where financial support for progressives is strongest. People there have seen their home values rise so high that they’re unwilling to leave, but now any hobo can park a stinking, moss-covered RV in front of your million-dollar home and the city won’t tow it. Those were once among the nicest parts of Seattle. Now, block after block of them are rife with violent crime, theft, burglary, open drug use, rats, and garbage spilling into the streets. Local progressive politicians are in trouble with the NIMBYs.

After the 2020 and 2021 elections, voters realize that maybe we can take things back. A recall effort against Seattle’s Socialist city council member just failed by a few hundred votes even though only voters in her district were allowed to vote. Several local candidates, including a deeply anti-police City Attorney candidate, lost by record-setting margins. A few of the survivors have grown backbones and are now backing sweeps of homeless camps and similar enforcement measures that were verboten during COVID. Seattle’s mayor-elect ran on what passes for an anti-homeless platform around here. He starts on 01 JAN.

Even Congress has taken notice of Frances Haugen’s revelations into the malevolence driving Facebook, and social media platforms are coiling in their seats. Jack Dorsey leaving Twitter will make the world worse but his efforts to reform social media will help. Washington state’s economy is tech-heavy, so those things matter a lot around here.

Across the country, we did well in the mid-terms and probably will again in 2022 and 2024. Old-line blue politicians constantly re-enforce their irrelevance then progressives instantly jump in to show that they’re just as clueless and possibly more dangerous. CRT is on the ropes; its proponents lose more ground the harder they fight and are creating enemies faster than friends. Dr. Fauci gets odder by the minute, Representative Ocasio-Cortez is at Speaker Pelosi’s throat for openly green-lighting insider trading for members of Congress, and Tweets that could get otherwise-viable Democrats cancelled in an election cycle turn up regularly. The White House helps the MSM shape the news--whatever that is these days--despite both having lost all credibility with the populace. Its audiences shrink daily as people turn to podcasts and other long-form media that contain insight without MSM influence.

Mr. Biden has left many of Mr. Trump’s policies largely intact, Senator Manchin is running him ragged, his party won’t talk about the 2024 ticket publicly, and everyone seems to want Vice-President Harris as far from the spotlight as they can manage.

Best of all, thousands of first-time gun owners now know what it’s like when gun control starts applying to them.

We’re not out of the woods yet, but things are far better than they were before COVID. The only thing that worries me is Secretary Clinton reading her 2016 acceptance speech on the air. That was a test. She is NOT gone. She's positioning herself to run as the heir to Mr. Obama's legacy, she has learned her lessons, and she’d love a rematch with Mr. Trump.


Okie John

[CZ Man]

Like many of you I think enforcement of any proposed new restrictions is easier said than done. Especially here in eastern WA. We are not the same as those on the west, we're basically two different states. Some of our local sheriffs have publicly declared they are not enforcing any of the newest gun control laws, and a magazine ban would likely fail to be enforced here as well.

[Flamingo]

All of which is to say, I like your little slice of heaven. May as well keep it. JMO, OMMV, etc. etc.

The news that WA is thinking of the GPS trackers on vehicles makes me even more frustrated.

We love our place too! That is what make the thought of moving even more difficult. They are opening a cider place here, you need to come and visit and we can do all the brewpubs, cider places and the distillery. Compound Flamingo is open to you anytime.

[Navin Johnson]

Even Snohomish Co. puts the new transfer rules as an only if a lot of other stuff was done wrong will we look at that.

Problem is a good shoot with an evil 12 round magazine and with a Soros assisted prosecutor and a jury of people who come from places where average people don't have guns....

[Totem Polar]

They are opening a cider place here, you need to come and visit and we can do all the brewpubs, cider places and the distillery. Compound Flamingo is open to you anytime.

I’m in. Let’s figure out a time.

[PNWTO]

12-round capacity limit moved to floor, bypassing committee. Forgive the FPC source.

[Lex Luthier]

12-round capacity limit moved to floor, bypassing committee. Forgive the FPC source.

Aggggh. Godspeed, good people of WA.

[Navin Johnson]

Same fucktards that have brought in homelessness,. Created the city with the most property crime of any major city in the country,. And de facto legalized drugs. Oh yeah and now we're not going to enforce many driving infractions.

I wonder where the 12 round capacity came from. I know New York did seven round because Kimbers are made there

And the all-knowing Pete Carroll, local sport ball coach, had a press conference too reiterate and enforce the idea that his players are afraid to drive home for fear of being killed by the SPD or any popo for that matter. What a great community member.

Almost forgot Seattle's a shit hole and it's full of shirtty people

[Chain]

Are there ever any high-profile/moneyed individuals that come out *against* gun control? At what point in history did the narrative shift to where it's politically unwise to support gun rights? Is it just the emotional nature of sensationalized violence and "if it bleeds it leads" reporting?
Silicon valley, Hollywood, rich politicians ... over and over they are advancing this legislative creep.

We get ... Ted Nugent I guess?