The head chair of JHA (Tarnas) said on the news that this isn't a "gut and replace" bill and that it followed it's proper channels and can be successfully defended per the AG's office in court.

The additions are so huge that it didn't get any senate committee hearings or public input on it.  Instead, the senate head chairs, who are anti 2A will get to decide if it's OK (Rhodes and Elefante).  Others may be present, but IDK.  If the vice chair for JDC is present, that's Gabbard and he has been a friend to the 2A.  I'm hoping he would bring up the major concerns if he gets a voice. The senate PSM vice chair is Wakai, who's anti 2A. So Gabbard would still be outnumbered.

What Tarnas did met the letter of the law, but not the spirit of the law.  It wasn't gutted or replaced.  But it had the same intent, adding a lot of stuff that didn't go through the Senate committees.  What he did was bypass the Senate JDC committee cause he knew it wouldn't pass there which is very underhanded

Gabbard can't be on conference committee since he voted no on the bill.  I was hoping Awa would be on the committee since he voted yes for the original bill, but couldn't find anything in the rules requiring a minority party member be on the committee.  So it's Elefante, Chang, Wakai, and Rhoads.  Elefante might vote no.  Chang and Wakai will vote yes.  Rhoads will most likely vote yes, but small chance he could vote no cause it bypassed his JDC committee.

I was looking for a small hammer, then I read the directions.

Thought I previously saw 10,000 licenses, guess that was too good to be true.

I estimated Hawaii's demand would be about 25,000 licenses which would've been half of the national average of 5% (5% is an old figure, likely higher now).  The things limiting it is lack of classes due to ranges, and people don't know the injunction is still in place for the sensitive places, and people don't know the license is good for 4 years now.

4/8/2025   H   Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 774).
4/8/2025   S   Senate disagrees with House amendments.
4/8/2025   S   Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 578).


Is the disagreement between Senate and House a normal thing? A positive sign?

Is it possible to see these House Comms and Senate Comms somewhere? They're numbered which makes me assume they must be archived?

Normal, just means they passed different versions of the bill and have to negotiate during conference committee, then revote on it. 

It passed the House today with the third reading vote.  Goes to conference committee where House and Senate negotiate, then vote.

Guess I can put it out now that my attorney posted it, the State will appeal it to the 9th Circuit En Banc where there is a 80% chance of us losing.  Need more Trump judges.

Current procedures will stay in place for now.

Samurai swords okay?

Didn't know it was a holiday, was just for taking pics.  $350 fix.  And didn't get to take pics.

Hegseth and Waltz screwed up and should've known better from the Hillary scandal.  They deserve the flak they are getting for having the chat and adding the journalist to it.

Should they get prosecuted or fired for it?  No.  Hillary set the standard and Hegseth and Waltz are doing an otherwise good job.

Begs the question should there be a more convenient classified messaging system to make this more efficient, without needing a SCIF?  I'm surprised there isn't one up already.

Added a bunch of gun and hunting related resos to the tracker