2017-01-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2017 talking a little bit more about it tonight – where would the land come from? We have some people from DLNR here – I’d like to address them on a couple of questions. If there’s money available, where would that be coming from? There’s a lot of questions that we want to start developing towards that very end that you’re talking about. Hopefully, we can do this within the next three or four months - have a package to take to the County Council. That’s our initial goal anyway. CP: My name’s Karl Carlysle, I’m from Hilo. I work at the Pohakuloa Training Area and I’m also a former employee of White Shark Arms. I’m here seeing a lot of people that have been associated with that – our shooters, our instructors – we’ve all promoted safety – I wanted to get the comments in while I got a chance. I see police officers here who I know – need a facility. At the facility I worked at, we’ve had Police Officers, we’ve had Air Marshals and people from the public and what I’m hoping is that this range that you’re looking to provide - one is – provide it expediently and two, that it’s open to everybody. In the small range that we had – we were able to do anything from having a pistol league to either running close quarters training and I’ve even have a CEO come all the way here to Hilo from Australia for training. I’d like to see that and I think you got a big representation here... TL: Absolutely. Thank you. Do we have anyone else then who would like to share either thoughts – yes, sir? NS: Hello. Hi, Nicholas Sanborn, I’m fourth or fifth generation here in Hilo. A lot of you probably knew my dad – my dad was Moki – he was a range instructor, he was part of the gun club, he was an active member in the gun scene here in Hilo. A few points that I kind of missed or talking about was, we all live in Hawaii and we’re still part of the United States and the political climate is something that I think a lot of us are a little nervous about – possibly apprehensive about – and being able to have a place where we can all go and learn how to properly handle a firearm because there is nowhere to go. I’ve taken all courses. But a lot of the people that have a gun for home defense have not even shot the weapon – don’t know how to use it in a properly controlled environment where they may end up killing a loved one or hurting themselves instead of stopping a bad guy, and the police department having to train, two and half hours away from where they live and where they actually are employed is just a little unfair. As you know, at the end of the day who absorbs that cost for travel, for pay, for all the other things that is required of them to host the recruitment class and to keep up their own training. The gentleman in Kona said that, he’s willing to put money on that, he can outshoot some of the recruits – that should never be the case – whether it’s true or not, you know, they are part of a system to protect all of us. There needs to be more than just a shotgun range. The statistics show – ten percent is 11