The Jan. 4 editorial “Reject legal challenge to I-594” makes a pretty good case for granting the relief sought by the Second Amendment Foundation suit (Did you actually read it? You should: www.saf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/NWSSvFergie.pdf ): “An order … enjoining Defendants, from enforcing I-594’s amendments … relating to non-commercial transfers of firearms to private citizens who are otherwise qualified…”
You effectively admit that I-594’s definition of “loan”, 2(25), is so broad that countless innocent acts, such as handing a gun to a Fed-Ex employee, and others cited in the suit, could be construed as criminal at prosecutorial whim.
You say we should not worry that I-594 will make felons of most of us, because we will probably get away with it, like “doing 63 mph in a 60 mph zone.”
This is not a traffic ticket, this is a life-destroying felony: years in prison, civil rights, life savings, any hope of a decent job forever gone.
Further, we live in the Land of the Liberal and hoplophobic derangement abounds:
Children are expelled from school for chewing a pop tart into an allegedly gun-like shape.
They are lined up like sitting ducks in “gun-free zones.”
Seattle and Everett officials tried to designate public parks and buildings “gun-free zones.”
Having failed, they and the Bloomberg machine (the moneybags behind I-594) bully shopkeepers into refusing service to lawfully armed citizens.
The King and Snohomish county prosecutors were complicit with the Bloomberg gang in passing I-594.
You say we should trust their fairness and “discretion.” Right.
John R. Alberti
Everett
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