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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1069

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By House Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Representatives Delvin, Wolfe, Mielke, Ebersole, Ballasiotes, Sheldon, Mastin, Carlson, McMorris, Carrell, Robertson, Hickel, Sheahan, Reams, Benton, Padden, Boldt, Hargrove, Chandler, McMahan, Cairnes, Clements, Chappell, Buck, Campbell, L. Thomas, Johnson, Backlund, Cooke, Conway, Kessler, Costa, Mulliken, Kremen, Dickerson, Quall, Basich, Fuhrman, Morris, Huff, Mitchell, Honeyford, Pennington, Elliot, Schoesler, D. Schmidt, Dyer and Appelwick)

Read first time 02/08/95.

Exempting retired law enforcement officers from restrictions on carrying firearms.

     AN ACT Relating to exceptions to restrictions on carrying firearms; and amending RCW 9.41.060.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 9.41.060 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 406 are each amended to read as follows:

     The provisions of RCW 9.41.050 shall not apply to:

     (1) Marshals, sheriffs, prison or jail wardens or their deputies, or other law enforcement officers;

     (2) Members of the armed forces of the United States or of the national guard or organized reserves, when on duty;

     (3) Officers or employees of the United States duly authorized to carry a concealed pistol;

     (4) Any person engaged in the business of manufacturing, repairing, or dealing in firearms, or the agent or representative of the person, if possessing, using, or carrying a pistol in the usual or ordinary course of the business;

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

     (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;

     (7) Regularly enrolled members of clubs organized for the purpose of modern and antique firearm collecting, when those members are at or are going to or from their collector's gun shows and exhibits;

     (8) Individual hunters when on a hunting, camping, or fishing trip; ((or))

     (9) Any person while carrying a pistol unloaded and in a closed opaque case or secure wrapper; or

(10) Law enforcement officers retired for service or physical disabilities, except for those law enforcement officers retired because of mental or stress-related disabilities.  This subsection applies only to a retired officer who has obtained documentation from a law enforcement agency within Washington state from which he or she retired that is signed by the agency's chief law enforcement officer and that states that the retired officer was retired for service or physical disability.

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