SurfPerch wrote:
Will read up on it and post a short summary afterwards... :)
Well, (3)(c) appears not once used in appellate courts records :)
(3)(a) - exception made for a "place of abode" is the only one mentioned many times. For (3)(a) "place of abode" is narrowly defined as your residence structure or attached to it, You can sit on your attached deck in a backyard with a gun that scared neighbor kids, but you cannot walk with it to your detached garage/shop if anybody can be alarmed by that. (like police is giving a command to drop the gun) Obviously your front lawn does not count- if I'm going to play Mccloskey, I could maximum stand in a plate carrier in my doorway/porch smiling with carbine in African carry:)
One case with (3)(a) exception for "place of abode" though probably explains why this statute doesn't appear in practice with (3)(c) exception. One dude in his apartment shove the muzzle of his unloaded riffle into a stomach of the male houseguest invited by his girlfriend and said "leave, or..." Although (3)(a) "place of abode" exception applies to "brandishing" but its a lesser charge and the least of his problems facing assault of second degree felony. ''
Similarly, I'd guess, when response with weapon involved in response to "unlawful force of another" brandishing RCW 9.41.270 is the least charge and the least problem for parties involved and therefore of no consequence.
Not a lawyer, just what I think I've read in the materials provided.... :)
Thanks, Arlington2018!