Hello again, everyone. Welcome to watching the Gun Law tv. I am Washington Gun Law President William Kirk. Thanks for joining us. This is going to be a video for the hometown crowd, and I will warn you now it's not going to be a good one. Okay, so anytime we're going to be talking about an infuriating topic. What are we talking about today? The 2025 legislative session. So if you need to hit pause right now, need to go pour yourself three fingers of bourbon, need to go do some breathing exercises or just need to grab a barf bag, I completely understand. We will wait, but for the rest of you, yes, it is that time of the year. We're getting dangerously close to the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, and it appears well, those that want to disarm us more already have their agenda in place. So today, let's spend a few minutes and let's talk about how Washington State wants to disarm you in 2025.
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Now, funny that the Conservative Ladies of Washington is sponsoring this video because just last week I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Julie Barrett of the Conservative Ladies of Washington for a live podcast where we kind of looked into the tea leaves, paid a little bit of Nostradamus, and figured out what might be coming down the road, and shockingly, we were dead, right? And you go, oh, wow, what? Are you guys psychic? Or did you cheat and get the answers to the exam? No, the truth is it's not really rocket science because you only have three places you need to look, okay? The first place you look is what's failed in the past because you know it's coming back, okay? The assault weapon ban took 'em seven runs at it. The magazine ban, it took 'em five runs at it, so they're going to keep coming back for all the stuff that didn't happen.
The second place you look is the state that's always on the gold medal platform of crazy gun laws, and of course that is California, Washington does nothing more than aspire to be just like California. And then the third place is you could take a look at groups like the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, every town, any of the other Bloomberg groups, because essentially what they do, as we now know through the hard work of Michael then is well, they basically write our gun laws and just get 'em passed through Liz Barry, and in fact, Liz Barry, representative Liz Barry is notorious for trading drafts of the bills with people from outside the state, from other anti Second Amendment organizations that will then help her draft the legislation, which she then shoves through the legislative process. So with all of that in mind, what kind of horror stories are headed our way this year?
Number one, a permit to purchase firearms. Yes, this is one that many, many gun grabbing states are really big on. Illinois always leading the charge with the FUD card. The state of Oregon is trying to do this as well. You may recall that both House Bill one, one, four, three, and 1 4 4 last year started off as a pre-purchasing licensing. It did get watered down significantly to a pre-purchasing educational requirement, but I can assure you there's going to be efforts to ramp this back up, turn it into a full fledged licensing regime, and then probably make it cost prohibitive more FFL accountability. Yeah, as you may recall, there was already one bill passed last year that's now going to require a lot of FFLs statewide to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in retrofitting their building all to meet compliance with the new statutes as it relates to the physical makeups and security of FFLs.
Obviously, that was probably not enough. So what you're going to see is probably additional requirements added there. They probably didn't run enough FFLs out of business, and then there's likely going to be additional insurance requirements that may come both on the FFLs as well as the individuals. That's what happens when you elect this person to head up the Office of Insurance Commissioner, and you may even see additional record keeping requirements that will be state specific, something you're also seeing in other states. Now, the third thing that the Alliance for Gun Responsibility says is on their 2025 agenda support and fund community safety. Now, they start off talking about how they really just need a lot of more local gun violence prevention programs, but ultimately what this really means is repealing state preemption, and I will say for the hundredth time, every time I talk about state preemption, I get all worked up about it.
I'm going to tell you it's about one of the worst things that could ever happen to your gun laws here in Washington state, but nobody seems to really give to what's about it. But if you want to know how bad it is, if you think what Washington State does to your firearm rights right now, just think what happens when the city of Seattle or King County or Pierce County or City of Tacoma or any place like that has carte blanche to do whatever they want, restrict firearms in sensitive places, a huge push that we're seeing, again through all sorts of states now that are hellbent on civilian disarmorment. More specifically, new York's Concealed Carry Improvement Act, as well as California Senate Bill two, both of which have been subject to considerable constitutional and actual successful challenges at this point. Last year, we added aquariums, zoos, and public transportation consider a whole new slew of things.
And then you also remember last year when they added those new sensitive places or what we call gun-free zones, they did exempt concealed carriers watch carefully for that exemption to be pulled from the statute now require the safe storage of firearms. Well, we already have a safe storage provision, don't we? Yeah, 9 41 360, but if you look very carefully, it basically says at the bottom of the statute that nothing in this section actually requires how you have to store a firearm. Instead, it basically says that, Hey, listen, if you store it like an idiot and unauthorized people access it, and then bad things happen, you're on the hook for it. Okay? But watch Washington State now make a push, much like we've seen in California or within certain cities of California, that will require that firearms be locked away at all times with perhaps the ammunition in a separate location unless the firearm is actually on your person restrict bulk firearm and ammunition purchases.
This is a big one, Washington, and you need to pay really, really careful attention, and you might want to think about stocking up, because I do believe that there is going to be a significant push to require a background check for ammunition. Once a background check for ammunition is required, you can no longer purchase from online, which means you can no longer purchase ammunition at online prices, which we know is significantly less than what the retailer is capable of selling it to you. For that reason, if there is something that you thinking about stocking up on now, it might be the types of common ammunition that you are most likely going to use. Okay? So I would seriously start scouring a lot of the online retailers right now, finding good deals while you can, and having whatever quantity of ammunition you feel comfortable storing sent to you like right now.
Then of course, there was that failed attempt to restrict us to only one firearm purchased for every 30 days. That law was recently passed in California and actually struck down, but that's not going to stop the Washington State legislature from giving it a run this time. So we could see also an attempt to restrict how many firearms we could purchase within a 30 day period, even though there's no constitutional basis for that whatsoever. Establish attacks on firearm sales and ammunition. Listen, the one thing I could absolutely positively and without a doubt assure you, is coming out of Olympia this year is a whole slew of new taxes. Yes, many of these gun violence prevention programs are going to need to be funded. So yes, you will see significant increase in firearms tax. You'll probably see a significant increase in ammunition tax. Now, think about this.
You pass a law that requires background checks for all ammunition, which means you no longer can purchase ammunition online, which means you then have to buy all ammunition and pay for a background check, plus be subjected to all the additional taxation that the state of Washington wants to put on it. That's one of the things that you have coming down the road from Olympia this year. Now, listen, there's probably going to be a few other ideas. I would be very, very careful with this person now as Office of Insurance Commissioner about proposed mandatory liability insurance for firearms owners and other types of requirements as to where the policies need to be kept and things like that. If you want to know more about that, check out what the city of San Jose has done to its citizens recently. Well, it's good to know that even though we have about a 12 to $14 billion deficit, one of the high priority items that we're going to do right away once we get things rolling in Olympia this year is figure out more creative ways to disarm the lawful and responsible gun owning Washington Resident Washington, the drill.
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Credit: William Kirk, Esq., Washington Gun Law