Dave Workman
Regular Member
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I have in hand a copy of an opinion from Attorney General Rob McKenna and Deputy Solicitor General William B. Collins to State Sen. Bob Morton and State Rep. Kevin Van De Wege, which bluntly says that a city in Washington cannot enact a local law that prohibits possession of firearms on city property or in city-owned facilities.
I think congrats are in order to Morton and Van De Wege, and also to Alan Gottlieb and the Second Amendment Foundation and Joe Waldron, legislative director at the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Bellevue, which fired the first legal shot across the bow of Mayor Greg Nickels, cooling his jets and essentially "buying some time" for these two state lawmakers to solicit an opinion from the AG's office.
The AG's opinion is dated October 13 (Monday) and should by now be in the city's hands.
Now, before anybody gets out the champagne and party favors, instead get set for a visit to Olympia because that is no doubt where Nickels will appear next, demanding and lobbying for an end to state preemption, or an exemption for cities of over 400,000 or 500,000 (Only Seattle qualifies!) so he can enact his own ordinances and set up Seattle as something of a city state.
AGO 2008-8 is not posted yet, but should be shortly, according to an e-mail I got from Waldron this morning.
I have in hand a copy of an opinion from Attorney General Rob McKenna and Deputy Solicitor General William B. Collins to State Sen. Bob Morton and State Rep. Kevin Van De Wege, which bluntly says that a city in Washington cannot enact a local law that prohibits possession of firearms on city property or in city-owned facilities.
I think congrats are in order to Morton and Van De Wege, and also to Alan Gottlieb and the Second Amendment Foundation and Joe Waldron, legislative director at the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Bellevue, which fired the first legal shot across the bow of Mayor Greg Nickels, cooling his jets and essentially "buying some time" for these two state lawmakers to solicit an opinion from the AG's office.
The AG's opinion is dated October 13 (Monday) and should by now be in the city's hands.
Now, before anybody gets out the champagne and party favors, instead get set for a visit to Olympia because that is no doubt where Nickels will appear next, demanding and lobbying for an end to state preemption, or an exemption for cities of over 400,000 or 500,000 (Only Seattle qualifies!) so he can enact his own ordinances and set up Seattle as something of a city state.
AGO 2008-8 is not posted yet, but should be shortly, according to an e-mail I got from Waldron this morning.