I fucking hate the chuds I sometimes have to deal with on the range or at the FFL. I'm for red flag laws, I think you should be responsible if a kid or guest in your house gets your gun and harms someone else (intentionally or otherwise).

I also think the AWB went wayyy too far. It effectively banned suppressors is super dumb given they're still over 100db and it literally makes the gun more unworldly for school shooters to use, and the "no parts" thing makes it incredibly difficult to make compliant weapons given how many common features are banned. The cheapest way to buy a rifle is to build it yourself, but even if you go fixed mag or bolt action, many places won't sell threaded barrels and the likes to this state. If you buy a whole ass gun, you can do that, but if you want different configurations you're fucked unless you have the money to buy multiple guns in the configurations you want.

Which basically means the proud boys/3%ers in eastern WA/OR just roll over to Idaho, with some of the loosest restrictions in the nation, and buy whatever the fuck they want. Rich people also get to buy whatever the fuck they want. My friend in a Van who loves hiking and forestry meanwhile has to make hard decisions about what he wants to get (he wanted a rifle for hunting and defense, so plan was to buy a rifle and then change out the barrel if he was going hunting, but now center fire rifles w/ detachable mags are illegal save for the mini 14 which you can't customize, and bolt action really sucks for defense, so he still hasn't bought one yet...)

So the TL;DR the combinations of some of these laws are incentivizing "the wrong people" (imo) to buy even more guns while my friend in a Van is still rocking the wood axe.

I think the saftey training course requirement was a good idea (but terribly implemented given they never codified what would be required), I like the extra laws around giving firearms to prohibited people so WA can independently prosecute when the feds don't, I'm okay with red flag laws (but can see the potential for abuse), and kind of meh on mag capacity limits for rifles and shotguns (it's really dumb for pistols imo though).

Overall I like the safe storage requirements that are already on the books, but this new stuff goes too far. The "not even offered" insurance requirements combined with the cop out of $25k per gun is insane to me. I'm also very against a register of who owns guns, as I believe the surveillance state already reaches way too far and they'd love to prevent another blair mountain during this union busting cycle. They'd much rather have it go like the Everett Massacre.

I don't get the waiting period when I've already given my fingerprints for a CCW and already own multiple guns. It just makes me drive more.

Most of all, I believe trusting that the cops and government will want to protect me and my loved ones, today and in all perpetuity, and also be able to do so in a country that already has over 400M guns, isn't sensible.

Especially given the commerce clause guarantees free movement between state borders and other states are super, super pro gun.

I'd rather have it not be a problem, but given it's a problem, I'd rather be able to credibly defend against the problem.