2020-02-11 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 11, 2020 very confusing but I believe that it would affect the hunting community a lot, basically you can’t – what I believe it’s how it’s written is you can’t borrow a rifle or shotgun from someone to go hunting. Let’s say your 18 year old son wants to go on a hunting/camping trip with his friends – he won’t be able to borrow your rifle and go out with them. Same thing for gonna go on African safari but you don’t have a big bore rifle – so you want to borrow your friends’ one – this bill would prevent that, it might also affect some classes – usually for the youth – like Boy Scouts – sometimes the instructor will borrow a rifle that’s from parents or other people and use it for his class. That may be prohibited also. It affects a lot of different areas. And a lot of people don’t realize that when it just says repeal provision to loan firearms. Ah, let’s see, going on – HB 1736 prohibits rifle magazines – well, actually, prohibits any magazines over ten rounds. Ah, current law says hand guns – you can’t have a magazine more than 10 rounds for a handgun. They’re gonna apply the same standard to every magazine so – usually that’s rifles but also, you know, specialty magazines for pistol caliber carbines or shotguns, special shotguns. But for rifles it’ll affect a lot of some hunters – you can hunt with an AR-15 rifle. Some people use AR-10s. I believe the Mayor of Kauai says he uses an AR-10 rifle for hunting. Pig hunters, M1 carbine – those usually comes with Stock 15 Round Magazines, so, for this – if it’s implemented – those magazines would have to be modified to fit only 10 rounds – maybe block it off – drive a rivet through the bottom – but that could affect the reliability of the magazine. Also, some of these magazines are very expensive – or vintage ones that you don’t want to modify, you’d either have to sell it to someone on the mainland or destroy them and buy new ones so, like for myself, I have probably 20 different magazines – probably worth about $400.00 that I have to replace if this bill were to go into effect. OK... Let’s see... HB 2465 – that’s one that we support – Farm Permits for U.S. Nationals. Right now the only people who that can own firearms in Hawaii are U.S. citizens and permanent residents. U.S. Nationals would be like American Samoans. They don’t have U.S. citizenship so in Hawaii they wouldn’t be able to buy any firearms. TY: It allows for U.S. Nationals to get the firearm permit to acquire – which they cannot right now. TN: So are you asking for our support or opposition? TY: Ah, that would be support, yeah, basically, so American Samoans can purchase a rifle or a shotgun to go hunting. GD: Donev District 9 – what is your color coding here? TY: The yellow means there’s a hearing coming up - scheduled at the state capitol. The red means it’s either past the deadline or deferred, which means put on hold – that usually means it’s dead for the year a lot of the times – but 8