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So I've called around to a few FFL dealers and each one of them has told me the same thing. None of them will sell to a resident who has been here for less than 90 days. I've got my WA drivers license (33 days ago), my car is registered here, I live day to day here, have all my bills here, I work here, and have my private health insurance here.
I thought I found the RCW code that they were talking about, but everybody tells me that I'm interpreting it incorrectly and this is not it:
9.41.090, Dealer deliveries regulated — Hold on delivery
(1) In addition to the other requirements of this chapter, no dealer may deliver a pistol to the purchaser thereof until:
(c) Five business days, meaning days on which state offices are open, have elapsed from the time of receipt of the application for the purchase thereof as provided herein by the chief of police or sheriff designated in subsection (5) of this section, and, when delivered, the pistol shall be securely wrapped and shall be unloaded. However, if the purchaser does not have a valid permanent Washington driver's license or state identification card or has not been a resident of the state for the previous consecutive ninety days, the waiting period under this subsection (1)(c) shall be up to sixty days.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9.41.090
I had thought that this law says that I need to BOTH have a washington licence/id AND have been here for 90 consecutive days, but everybody else seems to think that it says that if I have my license OR have been here for more than 90 days I should be able to buy.
Nevertheless every FFL says that I, in my current situation, must be here 57 more days before they will sell to me.
Can anybody clarify?
So I've called around to a few FFL dealers and each one of them has told me the same thing. None of them will sell to a resident who has been here for less than 90 days. I've got my WA drivers license (33 days ago), my car is registered here, I live day to day here, have all my bills here, I work here, and have my private health insurance here.
I thought I found the RCW code that they were talking about, but everybody tells me that I'm interpreting it incorrectly and this is not it:
9.41.090, Dealer deliveries regulated — Hold on delivery
(1) In addition to the other requirements of this chapter, no dealer may deliver a pistol to the purchaser thereof until:
(c) Five business days, meaning days on which state offices are open, have elapsed from the time of receipt of the application for the purchase thereof as provided herein by the chief of police or sheriff designated in subsection (5) of this section, and, when delivered, the pistol shall be securely wrapped and shall be unloaded. However, if the purchaser does not have a valid permanent Washington driver's license or state identification card or has not been a resident of the state for the previous consecutive ninety days, the waiting period under this subsection (1)(c) shall be up to sixty days.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9.41.090
I had thought that this law says that I need to BOTH have a washington licence/id AND have been here for 90 consecutive days, but everybody else seems to think that it says that if I have my license OR have been here for more than 90 days I should be able to buy.
Nevertheless every FFL says that I, in my current situation, must be here 57 more days before they will sell to me.
Can anybody clarify?