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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5231

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                                                                            C 132 L 89

State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Pullen, Madsen and Metcalf

Read first time 1/18/89 and referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

AN ACT Relating to antique firearms; and amending RCW 9.41.150.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 15, chapter 172, Laws of 1935 as amended by section 11, chapter 124, Laws of 1961 and RCW 9.41.150 are each amended to read as follows:

          RCW 9.41.010 through 9.41.160 shall not apply to antique ((pistols and revolvers manufactured prior to 1898 and held as collector's items)) firearms.  "Antique firearm," as used in this section, means a  firearm not designed or redesigned for using rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898 (including any matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system or replica thereof, whether actually manufactured before or after the year 1898) and also any firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade.

                                                                                                                          Passed the Senate March 15, 1989.

                                                                                                                                       President of the Senate.

                                                                                                                           Passed the House April 10, 1989.

                                                                                                                                         Speaker of the House.