Notes from Tuesday's "assault weapon" ban hearing: Part 1

KOMO news has an article on its site regarding a hearing held on Tuesday 1/26 in Olympia regarding SB 6396, a semi-auto firearms ban. This article is interesting to me, as I was there.

Bellevue Police Chief Linda Pillo was clearly out of her depth, as far as being able to formulate a credible, technical reason why she wanted to have "semi-auto assault weapons" banned, in response to Senator Roach's questioning.

But beyond that, I haven't seen any comments about the irony of the fact that Chief Pillo testified for a ban on assault weapons, with an assault weapon holstered on her belt (a pistol with a magazine presumably holding more than 10 rounds).

It was also Kafkaesque when Kline et al kept repeating how they "respected gun rights" when trying to criminalize those rights, e.g., having an AR-15 with a 20 round magazine in your house for self defense, the ability to hunt with an AR-15, etc.

Dennis Miyoshi was found and is OK.