Dear Citizen Activists,
Community activists need to appear at a King County Council meeting to speak out on the record regarding the County Executive’s illegal power to ban guns pursuant to King County Code. The fact that SAF has a case pending against North Carolina regarding the issue of emergency power to ban guns during emergencies makes things ripe for action.
See King County’s emergency powers.
A really big is necessary to knit Seattle’s activists together. The event will take some really good organizational skills to host a big all-day event with speakers like Massad Ayoob and Dave Workman. Bellevue firearms attorney and civil litigator David Newman is also a good resource (he teaches classes on gun law). Volunteers can obtain my e-mail address at www.firearms lawyer.net.
My choice for a feature speaker would be journalist Knute Berger who looks like Allen Ginsberg’s little brother and writes about Bell Town and Seattle politics.
The folks in Bell Town will love him! He writes favorably about guns and even “packs heat” on occasion- I think. We could have the event in Bell Town, get the CITIZENS ON PATROL group to participate and charge admission.
Massad Ayoob may be available; he is now affiliated with the ARMED CITIZEN LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK. This will be a chance for a number of citizen activist groups to promote each others’ causes and benefit our communities. We may decide to plan a two-day seminar later on if we can get this one off the ground.
Incidentally, Dave Poling appeared before the Yakima City Council by himself and got the Council to repeal three laws that violated state preemption. Yakima repealed the illegal power to ban guns during emergencies- just one of the three laws taken off the books! He is doing almost the same thing with the Yakima County Council. Gene Beasley and I wrote letters to the City of Federal Way; In January, 2009, Federal Way repealed all three laws that violated our state firearms preemption statute.
Mr. Newman and I filed a tort claim notice on the Port of Seattle on behalf of an open-carry client and the Port changed its policies to conform with state law. Concealed and open carry are now permitted outside and away from the metal detectors.
The point is that a few of us can make a world of difference just by encouraging each other to stand for what is right! Bell Town seems like the perfect venue!
I still have to read PUGETOPOLIS by Knute Berger if he responds to this missive and gives me his slant on things! I never met Knute in person so he may not look like Allen Ginsberg at all. Nevertheless, he is a Seattle institution of sorts. His BLOG article about Seattle’s Wild West days is a great example of “Mossback’s” writing skills and views on weaponry.
Armed citizens in Pugetopolis are ready for something like this!
Sincerely,
Mark S Knapp, Attorney
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