Court of Appeals of Washington December 28, 2000, No. 17471-9-III (State v. Schelin)

Sweeney, J.

The State must prove that a deadly weapon is both readily available and easily accessible to establish that a defendant was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of the commission of a crime. The defendant must then have physical access to the weapon at the time the crime is being committed. Here, Mark Schelin kept a loaded revolver 10 feet1 from the bottom of a stairway.