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The Seattle gun verdict: Eroding the law

GOPUSA StaffPittsburgh Tribune-Review (Greensburg, Pa.) Posted On 6:40 am August 17, 2017
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The importance of electing judges who uphold and defend the law is underscored by the state of Washington’s Supreme Court, which in an 8-1 ruling trampled state law to embrace Seattle’s purely partisan “gun violence tax.”

The 2015 tax law allows Seattle to impose levies of $25 per firearm plus 2-5 cents per round of ammunition, both of which pose disincentives to — if not the tacit regulation of — gun purchases in the city.

And it’s hardly surprising that the tax fell far short of its first-year revenue projection. Commerce suffered because the new taxes drove gun customers from the city, thereby directly conflicting with a 1983 state law.

Under that Washington law, guns fall under the purview of the state, not its cities: “The state … fully occupies and preempts the entire field of firearms regulations within the boundaries of the state, including the registration, licensing, possession, purchase, sale, acquisition, transfer, discharge and transportation of firearms or any element relating to firearms or parts thereof, including ammunition.”

Apparently that wasn’t clear enough for the state’s high-court justices except for one. In her dissent, Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud wrote that the pre-existing law’s “plain language demonstrates clear legislative intent to preempt local ‘laws and ordinances’ that ‘relate to firearms’ as broadly as possible.”

Seattle’s onerous gun tax clearly conflicts with Washington state’s gun law. It also erodes citizens’ Second Amendment rights.

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baitfish
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8:35 am August 17, 2017 at 8:35 am
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If I lived there, I would open a gun shop just outside the city limits.

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woftam
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10:25 am August 17, 2017 at 10:25 am
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This reminds me of the DRY COUNTIES in TEXAS. DRY COUNTY means no Liquor or Beer Sold in the County. That was to make sure you Yankee Folks didn’t think I was writing about RAIN.
The richest man in the County was the fellow that owned the Liquor Store across the street form the County Line. Seattle Gun & Ammo tax is just another stupid idea of the lefty / socialist Seattle city council. Side Bar, there are very few Dry Counties in Texas as Republicans have taken over Democrat run Counties.

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ltuser
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2:17 pm August 19, 2017 at 2:17 pm
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So why then are these judges STILL allowed to sit on the bench. Politicians in wa state, GET ON THE BALL and kick them off the bench!!

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aztejas1
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12:10 pm September 29, 2017 at 12:10 pm
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You obviously don’t know much about Washington STATE politics. Conservatives do not live in Seattle. The Eastern part the state has no political clout, which is where most Conservatives live. The same is true in Oregon and California.

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