Brickbat: Ancient History

The kindness of a pawn shop owner will keep
Washington’s Lynden Pioneer Museum from having to remove all firearms from a World War II exhibit
and return them to the owners to comply with a new state law.
Initiative 594, which voters passed earlier this month, requires
background checks on all firearms transfers except between family
members. There is no exception in the law for loans to museums. The
museum had planned to return the firearms to owners before the law
takes effect Dec. 4. But the owner of Pistol Annie’s Jewelry and
Pawn offered to do the background check on the museum director and
when the firearms are returned do the checks on the
owners.