Senate Bill 5737: Washington State Wants Sheriffs to Inspect Homes of AR15 Owners

The war against your gun rights is coming hard and fast. Let's look to Washington state where the state legislature is looking at giving the Sheriff, the one person you need to count on to uphold your Constitutional rights, the power to inspect your home at moment's notice if you are an owner of an "assault" weapon.

From the Seattle Times:


Forget police drones flying over your house. How about police coming inside, once a year, to have a look around?

As Orwellian as that sounds, it isn’t hypothetical. The notion of police home inspections was introduced in a bill last week in Olympia.

That it’s part of one of the major gun-control efforts pains me. 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.

The bill attempts to regulate magazines to just ten rounds. To enforce it, the state legislature is counting on county sheriffs to run annual inspections in the homes of Washington residents.

“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.”

Where is Richard Mack when you need him?