Pretty sure not owning ANY broadcast receiving devices is the only way to get around it, but that’s extremely difficult to accomplish. Keep in mind radio counts as well (though you can be eligible for a reduced rate if you only have radio access and no TV), including the one in your car, your stereo, or your alarm clock. Owning a TV with no antenna hooked up does not count either, since it’s trivial to do so, and you could just be hiding an antenna in your attic or your basement.

Basically, the only way to legally skirt the fee is to live under a bridge or in a forest without any electronic devices besides a flash lamp.

Yeah and even cable/satellite, paid services, are ad-riddled lol. Always kills me how the older generations criticize us for being financially irresponsible when they’re paying to watch a service that’s 20-25% ads

And it's not like mass shooters are law abiding citizens except in the small area of murdering random people.... They can easily drive one state over to Idaho and get whatever they want, and if they're out, continue south to Utah or east to Montana. Nobody is going to check your car on the way back...

I grew up in WA, and everyone got around whatever law they didn't like. Want to blow up big fireworks but your town doesn't allow it? Go to the local res, hide them under a blanket in the car, and be a very law abiding citizen on the way home (and blow them up in a random neighborhood). Before weed was legal, people would just grow it in the forest on public land, which was literally everywhere.

The mag law just exists to piss off law abiding citizens and is the same "save the children" BS excuse that'd being used to effectively ban porn and other things across the country. Solve the problem another way.