-  Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:52 pm
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							Demorats in Washington have drafted a new Bill that would allow police to enter your house for inspection/search purposes unanounced and without a warrant if you possess a "registered" weapon. If you don't let them into your home when they show up, it's a felony with up to a year in jail.  Exactly they way the NAZI's started their take over.
					
										
					  															  					                “In order to continue to possess a weapon that was legally possessed on the effective date of this section, the person possessing shall ... safely and securely store the assault weapon. The sheriff of the county may, no more than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance with this subsection.”
In other words, come into homes without a warrant to poke around. Failure to comply could get you up to a year in jail.
Forget police drones flying over your house. How about police coming inside, once a year, to have a look around?
As Orwellian as that sounds, it isn’t hypothetical. The notion of police home inspections was introduced in a bill last week in Washington State.
That it’s part of one of the major gun-control efforts pains me. It seemed in recent weeks lawmakers might be headed toward some common-sense regulation of gun sales. But then last week they went too far.
“They always say, we’ll never go house to house to take your guns away. But then you see this, and you have to wonder.” “It’s exactly this sort of thing that drives people into the arms of the NRA.”
That’s no gun-rights absolutist talking, but Lance Palmer, a Seattle trial lawyer and self-described liberal who brought the troubling Senate Bill 5737 to my attention.
I have been blasting the NRA for its paranoia in the gun-control debate. But Palmer is right — you can’t fully blame them, when cops going door-to-door shows up in legislation. The prime sponsor, Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, said he didn't read the whole 8 pages when he signed it, "the main thing is to get something in place for the safety of our children".
