HB 2947: Firearms safety measures

Establishing firearms-related safety measures.

1. IntroducedFeb 21, 2020
2. Out of committeestopped here
3. Passed House
4. Passed Senate
5. Governor
6. Law

Prime sponsor

Javier Valdez (D-46)

Introduced

February 21, 2020 in the House

Last action

February 21, 2020

Budget

Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to establishing firearms-related safety measures to increase public safety by prohibiting the manufacture, possession, distribution, importation, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, or transfer of large capacity magazines, and making a violation of these restrictions a gross misdemeanor offense, by defining large capacity magazines to apply to ammunition feeding devices with the capacity to accept more than fifteen rounds of ammunition, by allowing continued possession of large capacity magazines limited to those possessed prior to June 11, 2020, and those inherited on or after June 11, 2020, subject to restrictions on the ability to sell or transfer such large capacity magazines, requiring that they be stored in secure gun storage, and permitting their possession only on the owner's property or while engaged in lawful outdoor recreational activities or use at a licensed shooting range or when transporting the large capacity magazine to or from these locations unloaded and in a locked separate container, by providing limited exemptions solely for government officers, agents, or employees, or government contractors who provide firearms training to law enforcement, while acting within official duties, for licensed manufacturers and dealers for the purposes of sale of large capacity magazines to law enforcement or the military, for licensed dealers who acquire large capacity magazines from lawful owners for the purposes of sale to a resident of another state, for gunsmiths for the purpose of service or repair of a large capacity magazine, for individuals for the purpose of lawfully participating in an officially sanctioned sport shooting event or while lawfully engaged in shooting at a licensed shooting range, for law enforcement and corrections officers and military members while acting within the scope of official duties, for retired law enforcement officers who receive a large capacity magazine in connection with their separation from service, and for individuals for the purpose of permanently relinquishing a large capacity magazine to law enforcement for destruction, by establishing a large capacity magazine buy-back program to be operated by the Washington state patrol between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, within amounts appropriated for this purpose that allows a resident to receive compensation for up to five large capacity magazines in an amount determined by the Washington state patrol based on fair market value, by creating a public records act exemption for personal information of persons participating in the large capacity magazine buy-back program, and by repealing the precious metal bullion and monetized bullion tax preference to fund the large capacity magazine buy-back program;