Resolution No. ______ A resolution regarding the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

WHEREAS, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and is guaranteed as an individual right under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and under the Constitution of the State of Washington; and WHEREAS, the right of the people to keep and bear arms for defense of life, liberty, and property is regarded as an inalienable right by the citizens of the City of Spokane; and WHEREAS, the citizens of the City of Spokane, derive economic benefit from all safe forms of firearms recreation, hunting, and shooting conducted within Spokane County using all types of firearms allowable under the United States Constitution and the Constitution of the State of Washington; and WHEREAS, the Spokane City Council, being elected to represent the citizens of the City of Spokane and being duly sworn by their oath of office to uphold the United States Constitution and the Constitution of the State of Washington; and WHEREAS, proposed legislation now, and in the future under consideration by the Federal Government and the Washington State Legislature would infringe the right to keep and bear arms and would ban the possession and use of certain firearms now protected for individual citizens of the City of Spokane, for defense of life, liberty and property and would ban the possession and use of certain firearms now employed for safe forms of firearms recreation, hunting and shooting conducted within Spokane County, Washington. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Spokane that the City Council does hereby oppose the enactment of any legislation that would infringe upon the right of the people to keep and bear arms and consider such laws to be unconstitutional and beyond lawful legislative authority. ADOPTED by the City Council ______________________, 2013. ____________________________________ City Clerk Approved as to form: _____________________________ Assistant City Attorney Revision 1, dtd; 1/11/13