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Democrats in Washington Backtrack on Plan to Allow Police to Search Gun Owners Homes Without a Warrant

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Democrats
in Washington Backtrack on Plan to Allow Police to Search Gun Owners Homes
Without a Warrant

By Alex Thomas
theintelhub.com
February 19, 2013

A proposed law in
Washington State has led to widespread uproar, with citizens decrying the
provision that would allow police to search the homes of gun owners without a
warrant up to once per year.

The proposed law, SB 5737, contains a startling provision that would
effectively end the Fourth Amendment in the state.

“In order to continue to
possess an assault weapon that was legally possessed on the effective date of
this section, the person possessing shall … safely and securely store the
assault weapon.


The sheriff of the county
may, no more than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance
with this subsection.”


In response to the
outcry, multiple Democrats who sponsored the legislation are now backtracking
with claims that they didn’t actually read the bill and that the specific
provision allowing warrant-less searches of all gun owners is being
removed.

A report in the Seattle Times outlined the fact that the
original bill has now been removed from the states website, replaced with an
updated version that does not contain a provision allowing police to
conduct door to door searches of homes.

It seemed in recent weeks lawmakers might be headed toward
some common-sense regulation of gun sales. But then last week
they went too far. By mistake, they claim. But still too far.

“They always say, we’ll
never go house to house to take your guns away. But then you see this, and you
have to wonder.”


{….}

That’s no gun-rights absolutist talking, but Lance Palmer,
a Seattle trial lawyer and self-described liberal who brought the troubling Senate Bill 5737 to my attention.

It’s the long-awaited
assault-weapons ban, introduced last week by three Seattle Democrats.

(Note to readers: The link above is to a new version of SB
5737, which no longer contains the disputed provision. The original version of
the bill has been erased from the state’s Web site, but here you can see it as it was proposed.)

Two co sponsors were then
quoted in the article as saying that they hadn’t actually read the proposed law
and that staff was to blame for the horrific, unconstitutional provision.


I spoke to two of the
sponsors. One, Sen. Adam Kline, D-Seattle, a lawyer who typically is
hyper-attuned to civil-liberties issues, said he did not know the bill
authorized police searches because he had not read it closely before signing
on.


“I made a mistake,” Kline
said. “I frankly should have vetted this more closely.”


That lawmakers sponsor
bills they haven’t read is common. Still, it’s disappointing on one of this
political magnitude. Not counting a long table, it’s only an eight-page bill.


The prime sponsor, Sen.
Ed Murray, D-Seattle, also condemned the search provision in his own bill,
after I asked him about it. He said Palmer is right that it’s probably
unconstitutional.


“I have to admit that
shouldn’t be in there,” Murray said.


This proposed law is a
part of a larger tyrannical effort to limit and or restrict the gun rights of
private Americans throughout the country.


As pro gun control
activists, the corporate media, and elements of the federal government continue
to claim that they simply want reasonable gun control, the fact of
the matter is numerous extremely unreasonable laws have been passed and or
proposed in the wake of the horrific mass shooting in Newtown,
Connecticut.

In early February Democrats in California floated the idea of outright gun confiscation as they
attempted to one up New York in regards to the strictest gun law in the
country.

Among the measures is one
that would outlaw the future sale of semi-automatic rifles with detachable
magazines. The restriction would prevent quick reloading by requiring bullets
to be loaded one at a time.


Lawmakers also
want to make some prohibitions apply to current gun owners, not just to people
who buy weapons in the future.


{…..}


That’s right, gun
confiscation, a possibility that has been ridiculed by the corporate media and
the left for years is now being openly talked about as if they didn’t just
spend years and years trying to convince the American people that gun
confiscation is simply a right-wing conspiracy theory with no basis in actual
fact.

Shortly after the idea was floated in California, a proposed law was introduced into
the Missouri House of Representatives that included
outright gun confiscation of all semi-automatic weapons.

A section in the proposed
law
 calls for direct confiscation:

“Any person who, prior to
the effective date of this law, was legally in possession of an assault weapon
or large capacity magazine shall have ninety days from such effective date to
do any of the following without being subject to prosecution.


Residents will be ordered
to “remove the assault weapon or large capacity magazine from the state of
Missouri… Render the assault weapon permanently inoperable; or… Surrender the
assault weapon or large capacity magazine to the appropriate law enforcement
agency for destruction, subject to specific agency regulations.”


The two examples above
are merely an example of the numerous gun control measures that have been
either proposed or talked about by gun
grabbing politicians throughout the country.


Sadly, we are seeing the largest attack on gun rights in the history of
America.


Regardless of what the
gun grabbers claim, the facts clearly show that most if not all plans for gun
control are thinly veiled attempts at much more tyrannical gun
restrictions.


Obviously most can agree
that some sort of background check system should be in place but this is far
from the only thing the gun grabbers are pushing.)

For a complete
report on calls for gun confiscation throughout the country
click here. (up to 16 states have
proposed laws that would ban all semi-automatics)

Alex Thomas is an
investigative journalist, researcher, and the co-founder and editor of 
theintelhub.com. You can follow him on Twitter here and like our page on Facebook here.

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