MD_Willington
Member
And the timer starts as soon as you application comes to the firearms desk at DOL in Olympia...
The nonrefundable fee, paid upon application, for the five-year license shall be fifty-five dollars plus additional charges imposed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that are passed on to the applicant. The fee shall be distributed as follows:
RE: HB 1052-2009 as sponsored by Representative Moeller et. Al.
RCW9.41.170 requires that, in Washington State alone, all Legal Permanent Resident Aliens, also known as "Green Card Holders" or “LPRs”, are required to obtain an Alien Firearms License from the Washington State Department of Licensing if they choose to own, borrow, rent or even as so much as hold a firearm, without fear of prosecution for a Class C Felony, leading to probable deportation.
Please note that some legal opinion holds that;
Amendment XIV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution states the following:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
That is, WA State is *in violation of the 14th amendment rights of all Legal Permanent Residents. A suit filed by the NRA et al is progressing through Federal Court; a preliminary injunction requiring DOL to recommence issuing AFLs – suspended for four years due to “…an administrative problem” (only?) – has been granted. That the injunction was granted means it passed four legal tests one of which is “…is the suit likely to succeed?”
Washington State HB 1052-2009 has been proposed to eliminate the current discriminatory situation against LPRs – NOTE; not illegal or non-immigrant Aliens, and thus will not be in direct contradiction of the Constitution nor existing Federal Laws.
As a Husband/Wife/Friend/Acquaintance of a Legal Permanent Resident who currently resides in Washington State, and is directly affected by the current RCWs, I trust that you will be in favor of ending such discrimination by supporting the immediate passing of HB1052-2009.
Thank you for your consideration of this matter and for your full support.
Yours sincerely;
Personally - I have to side with Washington on this one. Not to raise the alarms here, but I can think of 19 guys not all that long ago who came to this country legally, and at one point would have passed a simple background check. 19 guys who are PRECISELY the people we do NOT want to have guns on our soil.