EP-003 – Gun Bills Committee Showdown
Erica Engelhart and Jay Fratt are back pounding the marble in Olympia this week. The committee action was so heavy on the 12 bills being tracked, the tag team duo decided to split the workload into multiple episodes. This episode features two of the gun bills being tracked by Oly Insider.
SB-5099 – Protecting the public from gun violence by establishing additional requirements for the business operations of licensed firearms dealers.
Bill Summary – Amends the definition of firearm dealer. Makes Washington State Patrol the regulatory agency responsible for processing firearm dealer license applications, ensuring firearm dealer compliance with state law, and revocations of state firearm dealer licenses. Amends the fees associated with firearm dealer licenses and license renewal applications. Requires specific training for firearm dealers and their employees.
Senator Lovick (Dem LD44). Hearing within the Senate Committee on Law & Justice
HB-1132 – Enhancing public safety by limiting bulk purchases and transfers of firearms and ammunition.
Bill Summary – Prohibits firearm dealers from delivering more than one firearm to a
purchaser or transferee within any 30-day period.
Prohibits firearm dealers from delivering more than 100 rounds of .50
caliber ammunition or more than 1,000 rounds of any other caliber of
ammunition to a purchaser or transferee within any 30-day period.
Public Hearing in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary. Statement by Rep Farivar (Dem LD46).
Rep Abell (Rep LD7) Question within the hearing.
Public testimony within the hearing pro and con.
Alliance for Gun Responsibility sheet distributed to witnesses and sponsoring representative.
Rep Jacobsen (Rep LD25) questions the statistic cited by Rep Farivar and several witnesses testifying in the hearing. Oly Inside found the study through a researcher on Instagram.
Intro and Outro Music Credits – Velvet Dreamscape.mp3 by Denys Brodovskyi is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License