2021-02-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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?: It's actually open carry not the concealed carry... ?: Yeah, yeah... AA: I'm not sure. I think Todd can probably touch up on that when the time comes — where you can re -ask that question. And then, as far as our shooting range down at Puuanahulu — so that's my support on the shooting range issue — the problem that I see with this shooting range issue is the resorts and even Blue Hawaii Helicopter from what I understand. So maybe we can have a future meeting and we'll invite them over and we'll see what their real issue is with it. Also, financing so we're also supposed to have Darren talk about, I guess, P & R funding — so we're gonna try and get him to come back on a future date. So it sounds like funding and noise seems to be the real issue with all this. So we'll look more into it before we continue on with this issue. So at this time we're going to move on to Todd Yukutake and he's from Hawaii Firearms Coalition and he's gonna give us the legislative update. f. Todd Yukutake of Hawaii Firearms Coalition Legislative Report: TY: Thank you, I'm Todd Yukutake — I'll be going over the laws — I'll just go back to the Young case real quick — that's in the 9t" Circuit Court of Appeals — that would allow you to carry a firearm in public and that could be decided in as soon as a couple of months to a couple of years from now. And that could possibly require additional training to do — so that creates more importance for a proper firearms training area for the Big Island, yeah? And let me just share my screen — I sent in a link — I put a link in the chat of my bill tracker for the legislature — on it, it shows all the statuses on the bills. Can everyone see this? Just checking up? Group: Yes. TY: So, these are all the proposed laws for Hawaii for 2021— that's currently in the legislature. In the left column it says opposed and support — that's our positions on the bills but there's varying degrees of support and opposing — in general we're opposed to any additional farm regulations — so if something is - been opposed we don't necessarily care about like firearm 24