2019-10-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 29, 2019 really no good places to go shooting. I went up to PTA cause I do stop there often – I go shopping at the Exchange – ran into Michael Donnelly who is the Public Affairs Officer there. Explained my situation that I would like to do a range up here for the public because at Schofield Barracks we have one – it’s called the Schofield Rod and Gun Club – as they do in Ewa Beach – they also have a marine corps range there as Kaneohe – so a lot of these military bases do offer rod & gun clubs but there are certain rules and restrictions that come with that. So he said that he believes that his commanding officer would like to do something with the public and he would like and what I’m asking is can we do an exploratory committee to see about going up there – meeting with the colonel and seeing if there’s something that we can go ahead and do. There are some restrictions and the restrictions are if you go \[unclear\] military base, of course, you have to have – the vehicle has to be cleared of everything, your – as far as your vehicle has to have the tags and everything proper done – you’re probably going to have to do a background check on yourself – I don’t know what that costs but that would have to be done as we did at Schofield and so if that’s – if this is all approved and they’re – fine – my goal would be to try to get it once or twice a month – but we can only do it – go to the range up there – when they’re not actually training – so – but as I understand it too – the land is owned by the State and there is a ten year lease left on that. The federal government has only ten years left – the State does – may grant them some more time – I don’t know – or they may take it back – so if they take it back it’s gonna be public land. There is also another range that I don’t know if anybody really knows about it – it’s up at Volcano. At the National Park there’s a range up there that’s for law enforcement and certain people and I would like to explore that a little bit and see if that’s a possibility to do another range up there as well, so... If you have any questions for me I’d try to answer. RH: We met with the past commander at PTA and his Sgt. Major. We met with a previous commander prior to him about the issue of the public using the PTA facility – some of the facilities – you touched on a couple of things about when the public goes there, there are some rather strict rules on how to get but you didn’t mention is you have to register every single firearm you bring on the base. DP: That’s good... RH: So you need to send in advance a long with your background check you have to submit a list with the state registration slip to PTA so they can put your firearms on their registration. The problem with all this – the problem with PTA is you are totally at the mercy of their schedule... DP: Right. 26