2020-02-11 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 11, 2020 5. PRESENTATION: (taken out of order) b. Hawaii Firearms Coalition director, Todd Yukutake, Bills in the Legislature related to firearms, and how they may affect firearm users AA: So this is Todd Yukutake. We moving to presentation b. He’s with the Hawaii Firearms Coalition – he’s a director and he’s gonna talk about some bills in the legislature related to firearms and then he’s also – I guess he going touch up on some of the hunting ones too. TY: I’m Todd Yukutake with the Hawaii Firearms Coalition, I passed out a list of the bills at the legislature this year regarding firearms and also hunting. So I can go over all the bills real quickly and go more in depth in how they apply in hunting for the GMAC committee. Do you want me to go over everything or just the hunting related ones? AA: Um, I guess start with the hunting and then as long as much time as you can give us before you need to leave. TY: OK. Yeah, so, ah, I’ll go down the firearms list and say how some of these apply to hunting. Well HB 1599 – the second one on the list – permit to acquire a long gun – conforms to a hand gun permit. Some of these repeat also so I may just skip some of them later on if they’re a duplicate, but, ah, basically what this does currently in Hawaii – for handguns you have to get one firearms permit for each handgun that you buy – so that combined with your registration requires three trips to a police station with every handgun. Right now for rifles you get one permit it’s good for one year. You can buy as many rifles and shotguns as you wish – so that cuts down on the – and then after that you just register your rifle or shotgun. So that cuts down on the number of trips to get a permit. This bill would basically make it so the handgun rules apply to rifles and shotguns too – you have to get a permit for each one and make those three trips to a police station. I believe it also requires you to receive firearms training too – like for hand guns – to acquire a handgun you have to show your firearms training affidavit – same would apply for rifles and shotguns now. So if you never bought a handgun before and never took a firearms training and safety class – you would have to do that now for any future rifles and shotguns that you purchase. SM: Excuse me. Stanley from District 1. What about the Hunter Education – they was considering that to buy pistol – so that’s still... TY: That’s still valid. Good point. OK. Moving on to the next one. HB 1600. That repealed the provision to loan firearms to other people. So that would have affected – it’s very confusing – there’s this one on who you can transfer a loaned firearms to – there’s also HRS 134-5 which is basically allows a person to possess a rifle or shotgun to go target shooting or go hunting so it’s 7