State Attorney General,
I am concerned with my participation in the Appleseed
Project, a two day rifle marksmanship clinic and heritage event the April 19,
1775. Many of the shooters at our events bring rifles to use that don’t
facilitate their learning, and we have used loaner rifles for the day they need
them and then take them back at the end of the day. This new improved control device
to stop troubling transfers of weapons to people that shouldn’t have them, is
not clear in our events. We aren’t really a competition, we are instructing
rifle marksmanship.
So, we would like
the State of Washington to authorize our organization to have loaner rifles to
use at our events. The state is the governing body and has jurisdiction over
all state lands within its borders, only for the period of the event as a very
temporary transfer for the instruction and practice of safe shooting on target.
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(f) The temporary
transfer of a firearm (i) between spouses or domestic partners;
(ii) if the temporary transfer occurs, and the firearm is
kept at all times, at an established shooting range authorized by the governing
body of the jurisdiction in which such range is located;
(iii) if the temporary transfer occurs and the
transferee's possession of the firearm is exclusively at a
lawful organized competition involving the use of a firearm, or while
participating in or practicing for a performance by an
organized group that uses firearms as a part of the performance;
(iv) to a person who is under eighteen years of
age for lawful hunting, sporting, or
educational purposes while under the direct supervision and
control of a responsible adult who is not prohibited from possessing firearms;
or
(v) while hunting if the hunting is legal in all places
where the person to whom the firearm is transferred possesses the firearm and the
person to whom the firearm is transferred has completed all
training and holds all licenses or permits required for such
hunting, provided that any temporary transfer allowed by this subsection is
permitted only if the person to whom the firearm is
transferred is not prohibited from possessing firearms under state or federal
law;
Thank you very much for your consideration in this matter.
Sincerely,
William Earl Dungey
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