r/WAGuns • u/Gloomy_Nebula_5138 • 3d ago
HB 1132 - Enhancing public safety by limiting bulk purchases and transfers of firearms and ammunition Politics
https://app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/?BillNumber=1132&Year=202513
u/JenkIsrael 3d ago edited 3d ago
Regarding the "1 gun/1000 rounds a month" bill, I am seeing this exception:
Any person who is a licensed collector as defined in 18 U.S.C. Sec. 921 and the regulations issued pursuant thereto, and who has a current certificate of eligibility issued by the department of justice.
This is a reference to a C&R license holder/FFL03, correct? If so, does that mean getting an FFL03 means you can skirt this regulation? This is of course assuming there are sellers that'd be willing to use this exemption to sell to you...
(copy/pasting the same comment from the other thread)
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u/GatterCatter 3d ago
It’s also 1000/rds that a vendor is allowed to sell a person. So you could buy from multiple vendors. But this will cause vendors to just not sell to Washington and also drive up the price for having to ship multiple packages…..as intended.
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u/Expensive-Attempt-19 3d ago
That sounds kind of weird. I licensed collector sounds to me like a 3 letter agency list to me...I'm thinking I'm gonna stay off that list. Lol
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u/JenkIsrael 3d ago
keep in mind for those of us that already have NFA items that's already a bygone issue anyway.
then there's always the question is whether 4473s are truly not kept in a database on their end.
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u/Expensive-Attempt-19 3d ago
Oh I'm sure they are. And I know having anything NFA is an auto list for me. Just stumped on the licensed collector thing. Almost everyone I know has more than 10 firearms and most of those folks have far more than that. Just seems absurd to me to even have a need to be a "licensed" collector. What else would be a bennefit?
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u/hardtobeuniqueuser 2d ago
Licensed collector refers to people with a c&r FFL. If you have one, you can acquire firearms that qualify as "curios and relics" and you get to skip involving a dealer and dealing with background checks.
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u/JenkIsrael 2d ago
FFL03 is like the lowest lowest level FFL you can get that's still technically an FFL. Cheapest and legally least onerous way to be an FFL.
Ostensibly it's for collecters of antique firearms and such, but if there's a law or regulation or whatever that requires you to be an FFL for whatever reason, this is the easiest and cheapest way for you to technically become an FFL. Since it really only charges you $30 to become an FFL, if WA were to actually implement this scheme, monetarily at least it may very well be worth it.
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u/AppleNo9354 3d ago
Oh boy I feel safer already by not practicing!