Posted July 17, 2019 3:00 pm by Comments

By Cam Edwards

The King County, WA Board of Health meets tonight (July 17th) to conclude its Gun Safety Action Plan Summit, a two day meeting designed to push sweeping gun control laws at the local level. What is the Gun Safety Action Plan, you ask? It’s a multi-step approach to putting new gun control laws on the books passed by the King County Council last October. At the time, it consisted of five main points:

  • requiring gun owners to lock up firearms and ammunition when not in use or “under the control” of the gun owner.
  • require signs warning of the dangers of gun ownership be posted at gun stores and ranges
  • a youth-led commission to “assess and provide recommendations for reducing gun violence that they experience.”
  • a working group designed to look at ways to push gun control laws under the guise of “public health”
  • requiring the King County Sheriff to destroy forfeited firearms, instead of selling them to law abiding citizens or FFL’s.

That’s not the end of the Gun Safety Action Plan agenda, but there’s a hurdle standing in the way of their gun control wish list: firearms pre-emption law. Right now, state law …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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