Dave The Welder
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Since the WAC prevents students from carrying a firearm on campus but allows for the storage of one on campus at the WSU police station, I carry my firearm on the bus to school everyday and then check it in with the police department before heading to classes. I check it out at the end of my day and take the bus home. The police department requires that I transport it unloaded but this isn't too much of a problem as I carry the pistol across my chest in my black travel bag (as some of you might have seen at the Olympia dinner) and carry the magazines in one of my pockets. Not the best arrangement but at least I have it.
The first time you check in your firearm for storage, there is a card that you fill out with your address and the firearm SN that they then use to log your firearm in and out. The other day I looked down at the bottom of this card and noticed a little box labeled "NCIC" checked off and signed by an officer. I asked the officer checking my firearm what this box was (having a good idea of what they had already done) and he explained that it showed that they had run a background check on me and determined that it was legal for me to own a firearm. I also got the impression that they might have run the SN on my pistol.
My question is, what is the legality surrounding their background check? I've signed no paperwork authorizing a background check and I've given them no probable cause to believe that I can't own a firearm. I just have them store my firearm for the day while I'm in class. This looks a lot like they're running an illegal search of everyone checking a firearm, which I would think would be the same as stopping an OCer and running his information just because the OCer had a pistol on.
Any thoughts on this?
Since the WAC prevents students from carrying a firearm on campus but allows for the storage of one on campus at the WSU police station, I carry my firearm on the bus to school everyday and then check it in with the police department before heading to classes. I check it out at the end of my day and take the bus home. The police department requires that I transport it unloaded but this isn't too much of a problem as I carry the pistol across my chest in my black travel bag (as some of you might have seen at the Olympia dinner) and carry the magazines in one of my pockets. Not the best arrangement but at least I have it.
The first time you check in your firearm for storage, there is a card that you fill out with your address and the firearm SN that they then use to log your firearm in and out. The other day I looked down at the bottom of this card and noticed a little box labeled "NCIC" checked off and signed by an officer. I asked the officer checking my firearm what this box was (having a good idea of what they had already done) and he explained that it showed that they had run a background check on me and determined that it was legal for me to own a firearm. I also got the impression that they might have run the SN on my pistol.
My question is, what is the legality surrounding their background check? I've signed no paperwork authorizing a background check and I've given them no probable cause to believe that I can't own a firearm. I just have them store my firearm for the day while I'm in class. This looks a lot like they're running an illegal search of everyone checking a firearm, which I would think would be the same as stopping an OCer and running his information just because the OCer had a pistol on.
Any thoughts on this?