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Washington Sate ban on MG parts

mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2011 in Ask the Experts
I have a question (I am allowed to ask questions here and not just answer them [;)]): Does the ban on the sale, possession and the shipping into Washington State of MG parts also include machine gun magazines such as surplus AK-47 magazines, M16 magazines and other MG mags that are not commercial (say for a single column feed AK sporter) but strictly military surplus?
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  • ExHawaianExHawaian Member Posts: 54 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    NO just the trigger and other action parts (m-16 instead of AR) Barrels, sights, mags are all OK.
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  • NwcidNwcid Member Posts: 10,674 ✭
    edited November -1
    Nope, you are good to go. The ban is on parts that can ONLY be used in SBS/SBR/MG. IF there is a legal use for the part in WA then the parts are legal.


    http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9.41.220


    RCW 9.41.220
    Unlawful firearms and parts contraband.

    All machine guns, short-barreled shotguns, or short-barreled rifles, or any part designed and intended solely and exclusively for use in a machine gun, short-barreled shotgun, or short-barreled rifle, or in converting a weapon into a machine gun, short-barreled shotgun, or short-barreled rifle, illegally held or illegally possessed are hereby declared to be contraband, and it shall be the duty of all peace officers, and/or any officer or member of the armed forces of the United States or the state of Washington, to seize said machine gun, short-barreled shotgun, or short-barreled rifle, or parts thereof, wherever and whenever found.


    [1994 sp.s. c 7 ? 421; 1933 c 64 ? 4; RRS ? 2518-4.]
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank you!
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  • DEEREHARTDEEREHART Member Posts: 376 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I feel so happy to live in a state that feels the need to take care of me.[xx(][xx(]
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I appreciate the fast response. The items in question were surplus East German AK-74 magazines from the 1980s. I was 99% sure that these would not be considered MG parts and of course the buyer in Spokane "assured" me that they were not. What info I could quickly find about the MG parts situation in Washington State was a bit ambiguous so rather than waste more effort searching, it was time to head to the GB Ask The Experts Forum for the real info.

    Our members here on ATE are absolutely the best found on any firearms forum anywhere!
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