Reddit reviews Washington State Penal Code 2018

I only used Canada because the article is about Canada. A cop in Texas doesn't have to know the firearms laws in Washington, because a Texas cop doesn't enforce the laws in Washington. The Texas Penal Code is only 228 pages long. Washington State Penal Code is 232 pages. That's even easier to study than Canada's 650. There is no cop who's jurisdiction encompasses every state/county/and city in the US. So there's no reason a cop would have to learn 50,000 firearms laws.

And there aren't 50,000 firearms laws. There's closer to 300.

>The National Rifle Association and other pro-gun groups have often cited the 20,000 gun laws that already exist on the books as reasons why more enforcement, not more legislation, is the answer to curb gun violence.
However, the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy at the Brookings Institution debunked that statistic in 2002, calling it problematic. https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/01/four-gun-claims-that-are-just-plain-wrong

>The NRA is not alone in using the number. Brookings traced its origin back to Michigan Democratic Rep. John Dingell's 1965 testimony on firearms and President Ronald Reagan cited the statistic again in 1981.

>Brookings estimates there are not thousands, but closer to 300 federal and state gun laws. Brookings clarifies that it did not include local laws in its survey because roughly 40 states prohibit most local gun laws.