2020-02-11 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 11, 2020 it can’t be revived back. And just because it’s in red doesn’t mean it’s 100% dead – there are work-arounds to revive some of these bills. TN: Excuse me – we don’t have a copy of that – could you send over a copy? TY: Sure. TN: Thank you – Teresa in Kona. GD: Donev – District 9 – so for all of these bills you’re asking for our support? Is that? TY: Ah, some of these are opposed, ah, the previous ones I’m opposed to or HIFCO is opposed to. The Hawaiian U.S. Nationals to get firearms permits – we are supporting. GD: Thanks. TY: HB 2709 – Firearms and Estates – I believe this came about because of the officer shooting that happened last month where a person passed away and their firearms were kind of left in limbo. That one – this bill – we’re neutral on but basically before an estate can close the police are gonna check if there were any firearms owned by that person that passed away and that’s, from rumors I heard that the person involved with the shooting, I guess, a lot of those rifles were hunting rifles – so that one we’re neutral on. There’s HB 2736 for ammunition checks – basically, currently if you go to a gun store or any store that sells ammunition you can just buy it with no restrictions – under this bill you have to show your firearms registration permit to purchase ammo. If you don’t have a permit – you cannot buy ammo. Also, so that could affect people that don’t own firearms that go in on a hunting trip with other people but, you know, they have to buy their own stuff, could affect people from the mainland coming to Hawaii to hunt with their rifles. They don’t have to register it as long as they’re here for less than five days, but, they don’t have a firearms registration so they can’t buy ammo. Same thing with competitive shooters too, from the mainland. Another problem with this bill is you can only buy the ammunition that’s listed on your firearm’s permit so let’s say if you have an AR 15 you can’t switch out the uppers for it – no, usually it’s 5.56 but you can put a different upper on – you may need a stronger round to go hunting with, you know, a 6.8 or whatever other calibrated, you want to be able to buy that ammunition if your permit just says 5.56 of 2.23 on it. Same thing with the revolvers. .357 Revolver can shoot .38 special ammo too but usually on the registration it’s only .357. There’s other scenarios for that so I think you understand. There’s a lot of problems with this bill. OK... Let’s see... there’s SB 2811 on the back side – repeals a provision to loan firearms. It’s somewhere to the first one I talked about at the beginning where you can’t loan a firearm to another person. This one you can do it except the other 9