Court Opinion

ID: 9594042
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:26:26.985186+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:08:48.805871
License: Public Domain

Williams, J.
(concurring)—One who has equipped himself with a gun is "armed with a deadly weapon" notwithstanding ammunition is not immediately available. This is well established in Washington law. RCW 9A.04.110(6) expressly includes unloaded firearms in the definition of "deadly weapon." If the unloaded gun is "easily accessible and readily available for use by the defendant" for any purpose, then the defendant is "armed with a deadly weapon." State v. Hall, 46 Wn. App. 689, 695, 732 P.2d 524 *116(1987); State v. Sabala, 44 Wn. App. 444, 448, 723 P.2d 5 (1986). I therefore join in affirming the judgment.