Jim Moeller is well known for his double speak and hypocrisy when it comes to his view of firearms ownership. This is just another obvious attempt to chip away at our constitutional protections; this time under the guise of child protection. While having the temerity to say he fully supports the Constitution of the State of Washington and the Constitution of the United States, both of which clearly use the words impaired and infringed respectively, Moeller has avidly pursued and signed onto almost every major and minor piece of gun control legislation to spew forth from the Washington State House and Senate gun control minions as well as sponsoring a few himself.
Moeller has even written constituents who have questioned him on his stance on firearms legislation and stated that even while he owns a few guns himself, he fully supports *reasonable* controls and restrictions (read that Infringements and Impairments). His view became crystal clear in his responses to constituents who challenged his thought process on the *so called* assault weapon ban that was so rightfully rejected last year. In these responses, Moeller stated “The only reason a person would want to own an assault weapon is for clearly illegal activities.” I’m sure past and more recent marksmanship champions, both state and national, would be happy to hear THAT. I’m also sure there are thousands upon thousands of hunters and other law abiding sportsmen who are happy to know that they are conspiring for illegal activities simply because of aesthetics.
Make no doubt about it; Jim Moeller is an enemy of gun owners everywhere.
Need more evidence of his hypocrisy? Just read the title of his proposed bill: “Encouraging safe storage of firearms”. The definition of *Encouraging* is a far cry from the words *MANDATING or CRIMINALIZING*
But Moeller probably sleeps better knowing his bill will at least be more *pleasing* (if not downright misleading)to his fellow representatives.