WSR 24-15-080
PERMANENT RULES
GAMBLING COMMISSION
[Filed July 18, 2024, 12:50 p.m., effective August 18, 2024]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The gambling commission sought to review WAC 230-06-025 Restrictions on firearms as prize, to ensure compliance with all state firearm statutes. The changes to WAC 230-06-025 accomplishes the following:
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| • | Limit the certificate to be redeemable by a licensed firearm dealer to a Washington state dealer. |
| • | Limit the firearms that are available as prizes to only those firearms that are authorized for sale in Washington state. Amended language would aim to clarify this point. |
| • | Prohibit persons who are not permitted to own firearms in Washington from winning a firearm in a raffle. |
Additional language to the rule was added to ensure such prohibited individuals are not able to acquire a firearm as a raffle prize.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 230-06-025.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW
9.46.070.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 24-11-080 on May 15, 2024.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: July 11, 2024.
Adam Amorine
Legal Manager and Rules Coordinator
OTS-5441.1
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 06-17-132, filed 8/22/06, effective 1/1/08)
WAC 230-06-025Restrictions on firearms as prizes.
Only charitable or nonprofit organizations operating a raffle may award firearms, air guns, or other mechanical devices which are capable of discharging dangerous projectiles, including but not limited to, BB or CO2 guns, rifles, shotguns, pistols or revolvers, or crossbows as a prize. The firearm must be authorized for sale in Washington state. If the prize awarded is restricted from transfer by state or federal law, the licensee must award the winner a certificate, redeemable by a licensed Washington state firearms dealer, for the prize offered. Alternatively, the winner shall be awarded a prize of equivalent value, such as a gift certificate, if the winner of the raffle is prohibited from owning or possessing firearms by other sections of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW).