We need to warn anyone we know in Washington state about Initiative 594.  This is an unbelievably dangerous bill up for public a ballot vote masked as a "Common Sense Background Check" bill.  I594 is being brought to us by groups funded by Bloomberg and has some serious financial backing from a few other billionaires.  If it makes it into law it would ban even the simple act of letting a friend try your gun at a range without a background check through a FFL before handing them the gun and then another check before they hand it back to you.  The real intention of this bill is to make it virtually impossible to enjoy hunting / target practice with family and friends or conduct safety training where a firearm might exchange hands for any reason if for just seconds.  

 

You can read an article on it here:  http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed8ad5eb#/ed8ad5eb/89

 

You can read the actual Initiative as submitted: http://sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/initiatives/FinalText_483.pdf

 

Get the word out.  Even if you're not concerned about what's happening in Washington state you might want to be aware of this because it's apparently being floated in other states and it won't be long till it shows up here if the ballot vote passes.

 

 

 

 

http://www.examiner.com/article/billionaire-bombardment-bloomberg-adds-another-million-to-i-594

 

Bloomberg and other millionaires are. Trying to buy this

 

And it's sad that this is polling like it's destined to pass

It'd be really nice if Bloomberg and his cabal would find themselves enjoying a nice, plunging free-fall off the nearest, highest cliff into a smooth face of bedrock. Really, I cannot see how this world would be much worse off without them.

I'm sure their strategy is to get a foothold somewhere, then begin to spread the same crap to other places.

 

I shudder to think what would happen if an anti-gun measure got on a referendum in New Jersey!

Those dummies in WA keep voting in democrats so it won't surprise me if this passes.

I-594 is getting national attention, the billionaires are also dumping lot of money into it. In fact this story even made the website of my local NBC station in Cincinnati, WLWT.

 

 

Bill Gates, wife give $1 million to gun control

http://www.wlwt.com/money/bill-gates-and-his-wife-give-1-million-to-gun-control-push/27739896#!bKMBbA

"Previously, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen gave $500,000 to the group, while recently retired Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave $250,000 and his wife Connie contributed $330,000.

It's not just Microsoft billionaires throwing big bucks at the gun control campaign. Tech venture capitalist Nick Hanauer contributed an additional $1 million, according to the filing, on top of his earlier contributions of $335,000."

I guess they only want their security teams armed.

The voters at large just see the general description (if at all) and say "yes, checks are a good thing".

 

I wonder though, aside from the 'my security should be armed but nobody else should be' line of reasoning, there has to be some other motive to dumping in all that money.  What could it be?

 

And as an aside, where did monkey-boy Balmer's wife get $330,000 to donate to the cause?  Wouldn't that be Steve's money anyway?  Is she a billionaire in her own right?

Washington is a "community property" state...what's his is hers and vice-versa.   So yes, she is also a billionaire.

And people say gun owners are crazy!? This law is absurd. The NRA should be running ads and replace gun transfer with an item that people use everyday, like car keys or a soda (to mock Bloomberg). The ad should say something like "how long before the government tries to make you pay a transfer fee every time you pass this to a family member or a friend? Vote no to I594 and tell Bloomberg to keep his hands off your property."

 

Not everyone owns a firearm but most everyone handles car keys or a soda. If non-firearms owners see the vaguely worded proposal when voting they may vote for it out of ignorance or think it is just "commonse sense gun control/safety" instead of additional taxation and goverment intrusion into their daily life. If they associate the proposal with something they use multiple times a day they will have more of a reason to look further into it. The NRA should be hammering home that today it's firearms but tomorrow it could be yiur iPhone, large soda, car, etc that the givernment wants to tax you unfairly for and further intrude on your life.

 

Also, we need to have a better thread title to warn people about this and get the word out as to what this is really about.

 

Edit- I posted a thread about this in the 1st Amendment Lounge and Genetal Firearms Discussion. If overkill please delete the thread in the 1st Amendment Lounge as not everyone ventures in there.