2021-02-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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and I got a DBIDS card. That DBIDS card allows me to go into the base and shoot at a facility and compete. I'm not a member of the Puuloa Rifle Club — I'm just a civilian — you don't have to be a member — but that's how they got started with a gun club — through competitions and even practices there. All I do when I get there — everyday that I go and compete we have to show our rifles to [unclear] they check the rifle and make sure it's with registration — cause I had to register my rifles and the Sgt. in charge of the rifle match — definitely he's in charge of all the ranges here in the state. He asked me why aren't we shooting at Pohakuloa and I said it's never been open for us. He said, you got the DBIDS card — you can get a gun club together and try to form something, approach I guess Mike or Greg — maybe we'd get something done 'cause he said that's a perfect place to hold some matches or even have practices up there. GF: No, I've said it's a good point the DBIDS card is for the navy and the marines — that's their base access patches. They use that card. We would do something similar — we would honor the DBIDS to a certain extent, however, you've got to have a place to go. As soon as you leave the [unclear] area of PTA you're on an active range or training area. So as soon as you walk off our cantonment you're already on the range — you're already on a range or a training area and so the folks back in the Pentagon it's called G3/5/7 or the Operations guys who administrate all of our active and ranges throughout the Army — they get a little excited about that cause you know it's really for the Army and the other services to train on — so you got to compete — we mentioned that earlier — you're constantly competing so you can't really long term plan anything. I know where the National Rifle Championships are at Camp Perry every year — so you can't necessarily do that at PTA — we even have difficulties [unclear] the hunting as Mike knows and trying to schedule us open up training areas [unclear] compatible use for hunting and that's even difficult sometimes for us to make that — we really make an effort to do it but to have a set range — a trap or skeet range or a long gun range for targetry is difficult. And, you know, the access is just part of it — a lot of people don't want to kind of go through that — they don't want to go through an NCIC - through the National Criminal Investigation Database check and have to go through all of that and have us have all their records — some people baulk at that but that's what it would take — no, that's just one of the many issues we have that — yeah, [unclear] under the DBIDS card. 19