"Amends the prohibition on certain assault weapons to include assault rifles, assault shotguns, .50 caliber rifles, and assault weapon attachments. Modernizes the prohibition on assault pistols to include pistols with one or more prohibited feature. Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over a ten round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over a ten round capacity. Prohibits persons from bringing or causing to be brought into the State an assault rifle or assault shotgun. Prohibits the sale or transfer of an assault rifle or assault shotgun in the State, unless the assault rifle or assault shotgun is sold or transferred to an authorized individual. Creates exceptions for the acquisition and possession of prohibited firearms for members of law enforcement and the military."

read the horror-show bill (attached) and get ready to call your rep, submit testimony, and/or testify.

"batter up!"

https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=3196&year=2024
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2024/bills/SB3196_.HTM

https://nypost.com/2022/11/18/2-native-hawaiians-guilty-of-hate-crime-in-beating-of-white-man/

saw this posted on arfcom, didn't see this reported in the local media?  but the NY Post caught it, and arfcom.  I must've been sleeping or something.  Two Maui locals, dispensed a beat-down on Maui 2014, hate crime conviction 11/18/2022, sentencing in March 2023.  if I got that right...

https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Things-you-don-t-see-everyday-2-Native-Hawaiians-guilty-of-hate-crime-in-beating-of-white-man-/5-2604134/

sometimes I have to go to arfcom "General Discussion" for the latest scoop on the latest news.

please demand that Gov Ige veto the ill-advised bail reform bill sitting at his desk.  We don't need to follow the failed examples of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and turn Hawaii into a true criminals paradise.  These libtard lawmakers seem to think that the poor criminal is the victim.  Hawaii's catch-&-release justice system is already bad enough, even without a "get-out-of-jail-free" card.  Criminals gonna get a free pass on property theft, shoplifing, identity theft, car break-ins, burglary, fraudulent credit card use, etc.   must be a lot of George Soros money floating around.   JMHO   

SB1567 "criminal pre-trial reform"

https://governor.hawaii.gov/contact-us/comments-on-legislation/  limited to 250 characters, so be succinct.

https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/stolen-stuff-hawaii-launches-petition-urging-gov-ige-to-veto-the-bail-reform-bill/article_3dd42fe4-cc47-11ec-bf56-0b08234bece2.html

https://www.kitv.com/social-media-site-launches-petition-to-veto-bail-bill/video_ec65e810-c889-5689-b426-d4bf36c86a0b.html

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/05/05/critics-call-bail-reform-measure-approved-by-lawmakers-get-out-jail-free-card/

I guess that's when Karl Rhoads will reveal what kind of malarky he has planned for this years' three-ring circus and sleight-of-hand tricks.

I'm thinking there's a lot of AR-15 owners out there...

HB2744 establishes a new definition of:
      "Firearm receiver" means the part of a firearm that provides housing for the firearm's internal components, including a hammer, bolt, breechblock, action, or firing mechanism.

since the AR upper receiver houses the bolt... doesn't mention anything about being attached to, or purchased with, or registered with, a duly registered lower.

if interpreted as such, then AR-15 upper receivers, stripped or assembled, would have to be purchased through FFL, serialized, and registered, which implies the whole "permit to acquire" rigamarole.

Furthermore, everybody with an unregistered AR upper is instantly criminalized.

no shit.

https://2ahawaii.com/index.php?topic=37365.new#new

HPD wants 5-round mag limits, rifles, pistols.  State Rep Gregg Takeyama more than willing to accommodate.  could impact a lot of folks.  Pump-action AR's?

https://www.facebook.com/hificoorg/

Gary Martin had a previous 1995 felony conviction, Mississippi, aggravated assault.

https://twitter.com/MarkRiveraABC7/status/1096557521655992320

in view of the recent dumbsh!t who went push the wrong button, is Hawaii a target because of its US military presence?

I don't think Kim Jong Un (KJU) could hit Puerto Rico since it's too far away, and American Samoa isn't even a state, after all, it's the "United States of America" (USA), not the "United States and Territories of America" (USTA).  and KJU would like to poke a stick in the eye of American Imperialists, so what better target than the hedonistic pleasure destination of Waikiki?  one of the actual 50 states of the USA, although on a normal day, kinda hard to believe most times.

I think the military presence is derived from Pearl Harbor being a wonderful harbor, and the location in the middle of the Pacific, and water to sustain a population.  But I suspect that if Hawaii wasn't part of the USA,  that  Hawaii would be a British Colony (Capt Cook), if not a French Colony (e.g. Tahiti), if not a Portuguese Colony (e.g. Vasco de Gama, etc).  so, no matter what, thanks to "location, location, location", there would be a military presence here.  just a question of whose.

who knows, if we weren't part of the USA, the Chinese Govt might claim the Pacific Ocean as being theirs, just like they did for the South China Sea, and Hawaii would be part of Communist China, answering to Peking.  and Lahaina might be the provincial capital.

just my uninformed, uneducated 2 cents here, or should I say 2 escudo's, or 2 yuans.  ah, such a luxury of hypotheticals, it boggles the mind.

robbery at JITB, "the rifle broke and the male left to pick up the pieces".

looks like springs or wires.  is this Airsoft?  HPD Crimestoppers video:



i'm sure it wasn't funny to the JITB employee.