Why can WA state ranges own/use/furnish select-fire weapons?

[davepl]

So far as I can tell, in WA State RCW 9.41.190 makes it illegal to "own, buy, sell, load, furnish, ..." machine guns. And yet at least one local range (and I assume others) will let you rent a select-fire AR for use on their range.

Of the excemptions to the law about the only one I can see could apply would be the "acquired prior to July 1, 1994" part, but given they have close to a dozen different types, it seems unlikely.

My intent isn't to jam them up, its the more obvious "If the gun store owner can get a Class III and own NFA-registered select-fire in WA, what do I need to do to do the same?"

It can't be "create a gun store corporation" because people already do that for the silencer issue, but not for select-fire. Thoughts?

 

[hermannr]

Dave, I have never seen a select fire weapon for rent in WA, but I do know, if you owned it before 1994 (Mike Lowry again) you can still have it.

I would assume the range you are talking about has had these weapons available for longer than that.

Because of my political bent, I would like to see all of Mike Lowry's legacy errased from the RCW's, useless laws to control, from a useless nanny,