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Wash. Rev. Code § 9.41.220 (2025)

Unlawful firearms and parts contraband

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All machine guns, bump-fire stocks, undetectable firearms, 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, bump-fire stock, undetectable firearm, short-barreled shotgun, or short-barreled rifle, or parts thereof, wherever and whenever found.
[ 2019 c 243 s 4; 2018 c 7 s 4; 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 421; 1933 c 64 s 4; RRS s 2518-4.]

Notes:

Effective dates—2018 c 7: See note following RCW 9.41.010.
Finding—Intent—Severability—1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following RCW 43.70.540.
Effective date—1994 sp.s. c 7 ss 401-410, 413-416, 418-437, and 439-460: See note following RCW 9.41.010.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1969–1978 · leading case: City of Snohomish v. Swoboda, 461 P.2d 546 (Wash. Ct. App. 1969).
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City of Snohomish v. Swoboda, 461 P.2d 546 (Wash. Ct. App. 1969). “110 (gambling devices), RCW 9.41.220 (machine guns). None of these statutes authorizes a magistrate to issue a search warrant.”
State v. Cuzick, 585 P.2d 485 (Wash. Ct. App. 1978). “See RCW 9.41.220. Although an officer, when he sees a sawed-off shotgun, may seize it without determining if the appropriate sections of 26 U.”
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