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My carry style, recently

kparker

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SVG,

OK, picking up kids at school is #5 -- RCW 9.41.280 (3)(e) -- I guess I missed it because if you're really wanting to carry a useful defensive weapon in your car, you already have to have a CPL from the moment you sit down behind the wheel.

Plus, I'd argue (*here* that is, I'm volunteering to be a test case!) that (3)(f) ("... while conducting legitimate business at the school") covers you for the presence of the weapon anyway, though not for having it loaded in the vehicle.

Overall, 9.41.280 is one of the worst spaghetti-code laws I've ever seen. :-(
 

EMNofSeattle

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The only thing about WA law on Guns that bugs me is some of the ambiguous .060 exceptions seemingly incongruent with the states prohibition on concealed carry... For example

(6) Regularly enrolled members of clubs organized for the purpose of target shooting, when those members are at or are going to or from their places of target practice;

I actually used this one to carry a handgun several times before turning 21 being a GSSF member, I used it while openly carrying a glock to glock matches in Bremerton, like twice.....

(5) Regularly enrolled members of any organization duly authorized to purchase or receive pistols from the United States or from this state

I always wondered if my membership card to a CMP compliant club would double as a CPL in this case.... I considered it while waiting for my CPL (carry loaded openly in car) but decided I'd rather not be a test case.....
 

Kingfish

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No, in WA there is nothing in the law that allows a sheriff to modify CPL requirements and nothing that mandates concealed carry.

Remind them that 49/50 states and the federal government follow English law tradition, laws forbid acts, not allow them. If no law exists regarding CPLs forbidding open carry then it is by definition legal.

The only way that idea would even be true is if you lived in a may issue state that allowed open carry w/o maybe then the sheriff could revoke of refuse to renew your license if you open carried... Delaware I think is the only state that meets this criteria...
Alabama is may issue also. Some sheriffs don't like OC and will revoke if you try it.
 
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