Following a shooting that injured three people at the Folklife Festival on May 24, 2008, Mayor Greg Nickels directed City of Seattle departments to study the adoption and enforcement of policies, rules and contractual agreements which would prohibit the possession firearms on city property. 

The proposed Seattle Parks and Recreation administrative rule/policy would prohibit the possession of firearms at Parks Department facilities where children and youth are likely to be present.  The proposed rule/policy would apply to:

• Playgrounds and Children’s play areas
• Sports Fields & Sports Courts
• Swimming and Wading Pools
• Spray Parks (Water Play Areas)
• Teen Life Centers;
• Community Centers
• Environmental Learning Centers
• Small Craft Centers
• Performing Arts Centers
• Tennis Centers

This rule/policy does not include any criminal or civil penalties.  Rather, it constitutes conditions placed upon a person’s permission to enter or remain at a designated Parks Department facility at which appropriate signage has been posted.  Such conditions shall be enforced in the same manner and pursuant to the same ordinances and statutes as similar conditions could be enforced by private property owners.


http://www.seattle.gov/firearmsrule/