2017-01-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2017 TL: No, they did a good job. When we went up there we had to do a lot of that too. What obstacles have you run into in the past – like getting a range – or have you run into anything yet? LTS: Primarily, these gentlemen here can kinda step up and explain it – they’ve been working on it much, much longer than I have. I see there are challenges they can better attest to. Overcoming those boundaries from public organizations and primarily it’s not an understanding of the firearms community and what it really is so I think that educational aspect to the broad community would be a big benefit in getting the support for this type of activity. Unless... TL: We are hoping that our commission can develop a conversation with County Council and Mayor. The Mayor actually was very supportive of a range for the police department and when we talked to him in December of last year. We were encouraged by his willingness to start a discussion on this. Anybody else? Anybody from the community here have any questions? GG: Nice crowd over there. Thank you Mr. Chairman Tom Lodge. It’s more of a commentary than anything else to support my esteemed colleagues that presented – I’m Glennon Gingo – the current president of On-Target Inc. and I’m the younger guy coming into this – I’m fifty-five this year so that kind of gives you a little bit of a background, and how we need to get more young people involved in this process. I do want to reiterate the things that Mr. Hoeflinger said and there are two really important things I need to know – one of them transcends really all the rhetoric. It is illegal to discharge a firearm of any type on any property unless you’re engaged in activities of hunting – and that hunting has to be licensed – and you have to be using the proper caliber when you’re hunting so that brings up a lot of issues because we got a lot of people out there breaking the law to exercise their right to use a firearm and from an educational standpoint the thing that concerns me most is that we’ve got a lot of opportunities to give education in firearms but we’re never going to get to that point without a range. I appreciate Lt. Shopay’s candid remarks about having a cinder cone – but that’s very short of what a police range should be. I also disagree with hundred yard being a limit for a professional in shooting of the rifle and I can tell you right now most of my students could probably shoot better than half the department – so we’ll go on to competition someday and we’ll see how that goes when we build a range and we’ll see how that racks up against you guys there to call yourselves shooters. But, I’d love to have that competition to show you how the general public can actually shoot with – given the right circumstances. So, we do have to 9