u/frostyf3at

I've been reading through Washington's suppressor statute in light of the Silencer Shop Foundation v. ATF injunction, and I've run into a question I can't find addressed anywhere.

RCW 9.41.250(1)(c) makes it a gross misdemeanor to "use any contrivance or device for suppressing the noise of any firearm unless the suppressor is legally registered and possessed in accordance with federal law." That exception was added by 2011 c 13 s 1.

The issue: a Washington resident covered by the injunction (member of a plaintiff org, or customer of a plaintiff company) can now take a suppressor on a 4473 and NICS check with no Form 4 and no transfer registration. Does that person satisfy the state exception?

The obvious reading says no — "registered" means registered, and there's no Form 4. But I think there's a textual argument the other way that I haven't seen anyone make:

The grammatical subject of the exception is the suppressor, not the possessor. The statute says "the suppressor is legally registered," not "registered to the person possessing it." And a commercially manufactured suppressor already has an NFRTR entry — created by the manufacturer on a Form 2 at production, before any consumer is involved — plus a serial number under 27 CFR 479.102. The injunction cuts the Form 4 step only; Form 2 and the Form 3 dealer chain are untouched. So the device arguably is legally registered, and is possessed in accordance with federal law as to a covered party.

That puts the state in the odd position of arguing purpose against text.

Chapter 9.41 RCW never defines "registered" or "registration." RCW 9.41.010 defines 55 terms and the list goes straight from "Rifle" to "Sale." So the term's entire content comes from "in accordance with federal law."

I could not find any WA AG opinion, WSP guidance, or prosecutor statement addressing injunction-covered suppressors under state law, though you'd know better than I would whether something exists.

The short version of the question: does a Form 2 NFRTR entry satisfy "the suppressor is legally registered" under RCW 9.41.250(1)(c) when there is no Form 4 transfer record for the current possessor?

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