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2025 Revised Code of Washington
Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments
Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons.
- 9.41.010 - Definitions.
- 9.41.040 - Unlawful possession of firearms—Penalties.
- 9.41.041 - Unlawful possession of firearms—Restoration of right to possess.
- 9.41.042 - Children—Permissible firearm possession.
- 9.41.045 - Offenders under supervision of the department—Possession prohibited—Penalties.
- 9.41.047 - Persons found not guilty by reason of insanity and others—Possession rights.
- 9.41.049 - Persons who present likelihood of serious harm—Possession rights.
- 9.41.050 - Carrying firearms.
- 9.41.060 - Exceptions to restrictions on carrying firearms.
- 9.41.065 - Correctional employees—Effect of exemption from firearms restrictions—Liability limited.
- 9.41.070 - Concealed pistol license—Application—Fee—Renewal.
- 9.41.071 - Law enforcement agency—Fingerprints fee.
- 9.41.073 - Concealed pistol license—Reciprocity.
- 9.41.075 - Concealed pistol license—Revocation.
- 9.41.080 - Delivery to ineligible persons.
- 9.41.090 - Dealer deliveries regulated—Hold on delivery—Fees authorized.
- 9.41.092 - Licensed dealer deliveries—Background checks.
- 9.41.094 - Waiver of confidentiality.
- 9.41.097 - Supplying information on the eligibility of persons to possess firearms, purchase firearms, or be issued a concealed pistol license.
- 9.41.0975 - Officials and agencies—Immunity, writ of mandamus.
- 9.41.098 - Forfeiture of firearms—Disposition—Confiscation.
- 9.41.100 - Dealer licensing and registration required.
- 9.41.110 - Dealer's licenses, by whom granted, conditions, fees—Employees, fingerprinting and background checks—Wholesale sales excepted—Permits prohibited.
- 9.41.111 - Firearm frames or receivers—Background check—Penalty.
- 9.41.113 - Firearm sales or transfers—Background checks—Requirements—Exceptions.
- 9.41.1132 - Firearm sales and transfers—Firearms safety training program—Exceptions.
- 9.41.1135 - Firearms sales or transfers—Use of Washington state patrol firearms background check system.
- 9.41.114 - Firearm sales or transfers—Denial of application report—Dealer's duties.
- 9.41.115 - Penalties—Violations of RCW 9.41.113.
- 9.41.120 - Firearms as loan security.
- 9.41.121 - Firearms—Permit to purchase application.
- 9.41.122 - Out-of-state purchasing.
- 9.41.124 - Purchasing of rifles and shotguns by nonresidents.
- 9.41.129 - Recordkeeping requirements.
- 9.41.135 - Verification of licenses and registration—Notice to federal government.
- 9.41.137 - Department of licensing, authority to adopt rules—Reporting of violations—Authority to revoke licenses.
- 9.41.139 - Department of licensing—Eligibility to possess firearms.
- 9.41.140 - Alteration of identifying marks—Exceptions.
- 9.41.171 - Alien possession of firearms—Requirements—Penalty.
- 9.41.173 - Alien possession of firearms—Alien firearm license—Political subdivisions may not modify requirements—Penalty for false statement.
- 9.41.175 - Alien possession of firearms—Possession without license—Conditions.
- 9.41.185 - Coyote getters.
- 9.41.190 - Unlawful firearms—Exceptions.
- 9.41.220 - Unlawful firearms and parts contraband.
- 9.41.225 - Use of machine gun or bump-fire stock in felony—Penalty.
- 9.41.230 - Aiming or discharging firearms, dangerous weapons.
- 9.41.240 - Possession of pistol or semiautomatic assault rifle by person from eighteen to twenty-one.
- 9.41.250 - Dangerous weapons—Penalty.
- 9.41.251 - Dangerous weapons—Application of restrictions to law enforcement, firefighting, rescue, and military personnel.
- 9.41.260 - Dangerous exhibitions.
- 9.41.270 - Weapons apparently capable of producing bodily harm—Unlawful carrying or handling—Penalty—Exceptions.
- 9.41.280 - Possessing dangerous weapons on school facilities—Penalty—Exceptions.
- 9.41.282 - Possessing dangerous weapons on child care premises—Penalty—Exceptions.
- 9.41.284 - Possessing dangerous weapons at voting facilities—Penalty—Exceptions.
- 9.41.290 - State preemption.
- 9.41.300 - Weapons prohibited in certain places—Local laws and ordinances—Exceptions—Penalty.
- 9.41.305 - Open carry of weapons prohibited on state capitol grounds and municipal buildings.
- 9.41.310 - Information pamphlet.
- 9.41.320 - Fireworks.
- 9.41.325 - Undetectable or untraceable firearms—Penalties.
- 9.41.326 - Untraceable firearms—Exceptions—Penalties.
- 9.41.327 - Unfinished frames or receivers—Exceptions—Penalties.
- 9.41.328 - Imprinting a firearm or unfinished frame or receiver.
- 9.41.330 - Felony firearm offenders—Determination of registration.
- 9.41.333 - Duty to register—Requirements.
- 9.41.335 - Failure to register as felony firearm offender.
- 9.41.340 - Return of privately owned firearm by law enforcement agency—Notification—Exception—Exemption from public disclosure—Civil liability—Liability for request based on false information.
- 9.41.345 - Return of privately owned firearm or concealed pistol license by law enforcement agency—Duties—Notice—Exception.
- 9.41.350 - Voluntary waiver of firearm rights—Procedure—Penalty—Exemption from public disclosure.
- 9.41.352 - Voluntary waiver of firearm rights—Form—Availability.
- 9.41.354 - Voluntary waiver of firearm rights—Health professionals.
- 9.41.360 - Unsafe storage of a firearm.
- 9.41.365 - Firearm security and storage—Requirements for dealers.
- 9.41.368 - Firearm security and storage—Loss or theft—Owner or other person.
- 9.41.370 - Large capacity magazines—Exceptions—Penalty.
- 9.41.375 - Large capacity magazines—Unfair method of competition.
- 9.41.380 - Safe storage of firearms expansion encouraged—No special relationship created by dealer storage.
- 9.41.390 - Assault weapons—Manufacturing, importing, distributing, selling prohibited—Exceptions—Penalty.
- 9.41.395 - Assault weapons—Consumer protection act.
- 9.41.800 - Surrender of weapons or licenses—Prohibition on future possession or licensing.
- 9.41.801 - Surrender of weapons or licenses—Ensuring compliance.
- 9.41.802 - Proof of surrender and receipt pattern form—Declaration of nonsurrender pattern form—Administrative office of the courts to develop.
- 9.41.804 - Proof of surrender and receipt form, declaration, or other evidence—Requirement to file with clerk of the court.
- 9.41.810 - Penalty.
- 9.41.815 - Surrender of weapons or licenses—Ensuring compliance—Information sharing.
NOTES:
Carrying loaded rifle or shotgun in vehicle: RCW 77.15.460.
Explosives: Chapter 70.74 RCW.
Possessing a stolen firearm: RCW 9A.56.310.
Shooting firearm from, across, or along public highway: RCW 77.15.460.
Theft of a firearm: RCW 9A.56.300.
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