I was wonder if anyone knows of the legality of Shocknifes for training purposes in Hawaii. I know devices that are used to stun people are illegal for civilians here, but these do not stun.

I will attach a link to their website.
http://www.shocknife.com

Thanks for your input.

I've shot a ruger mkii, very nice pistol, but I like the Colt Woodsman better.

This week in general maybe a bad week. 2 holidays in 1 week, Kuhio Day tomorrow and Good Friday. HPD closed both days.

The cz 75b is not so compact, but I agree it is a sweet shooting handgun. If you were interested in CZ's, I would look into the CZ75 p01 (9mm), CZ 75 p06 (40 s&w) P07 Duty or the CZ Rami. As for magazines locally, I haven't seen any specifically for the compacts, but I have a p01 and know that the full size mag will fit... OGC has/had mags in both 9mm and 40 sw.
As for price range... I have seen them as low as $499 to $599 and more, with the market now probably the higher range. As for reliability, I have a P01 and a Cz 75b 40, I have put close to 1000 rounds through each and probably had 6 malfunctions (some due to limp wristing trying new techniques). They are more accurate than I am and felt recoil is minimal.

I too hope the child is going to be alright, but I fear we are going to be seeing more of these "accidents."

Just my opinion, but having been to the range a few times this year, I can see a whole lot of ignorance growing amongst the firearms community. People not knowing what the heck the are doing with a firearm being unsafe at the range seems to be more occurring than in the past. Luckily for the others around them, they are, for the most part, monitored and corrected before something happens.

An example, a guy had the be reminded 3 times to point his barrel down range, finally the official came over and corrected the situation. As the official stepped away the guy turned his rifle around again. WTF.

Now take these same ignorant people at home, when no one is there to monitor them, accident! .

Here is a link to an article. Interesting that they believe that limiting the amount of ammunition in one mag will stop the carnage. Have they heard of reloading?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/high-capacity-magazines-bill_n_2376838.html

I was at hpd this morning, and there is a sign on the registration window stating things for 2013. I asked the officer behind the window and he told me it was basically a reminder of what was needed to obtain your permits (ie. proof of citizenship for people born outside the US, and hunter Ed card for gun permits). He said it was posted because they don't have the time to remind people who don't bring all the proper documentation.

Here's a theory. The media ran with the words "long rifle", and made it into assault rifle. When in all actuality it was ment as .22 lr(long rifle). And that would explain the "bullets designed to stay in the flesh" statement as well. The police could have been racking a 10/22 with a assault type stock.

and that's why violent crime has been consistently dropping every year since 2000 when first person shooters started exploding in popularity when the Xbox made it feasible and affordable?


there has been no connection between actual violence and video games.  cmon.  if you're going to grasp for a scapegoat, dont pick the one that was so dumb even the mainstream media ditched it 5 years ago.

You make a good point, research has shown that violence in video games won't make a person commit violent crimes, I will go even further by saying violence in the movies and on TV will not cause people to commit mass murders and rapes (which I thought I did by saying I though movies were much more gory in the past). The point I was trying to make was that there isn't the guidence from our parents as there was in the past. I have worked as a teacher for the last 11 yrs and in this time have noted the involvement of parents fading in their own childs education. If you believe that a child is born with all the internal knowledge of what is right and wrong then stop reading here, the rest of this would not interest you. But I am in the belief that it takes a village to raise a child and they learn from who they are with. Teachers have now been tasked, not to only be educators but parents too, the only problem is we are not the child's parent. Heck, we as educators are struggling enough trying just to educate the children (a topic for another forum lol). The children need guidence and to be taught what is right and wrong, what is beautiful and what is ugly. Lines can sometimes get blurred when trying to figure this out on there own. Yes, some do fall through, and it is probably some of these people that end up doing the wrong things.

Lets look at the big picture, yes video games do not cause violence, some research show that for some people it may even let out aggression, but the notion of desensitization toward violence is there. There was a video series back in the 80's called "Faces of Death", which depicted different scenes of real death taking place. People were getting physically ill watch that film. By today's standards, those scenes take place on CNN nightly. In Africa most people do not have access to violent media, but violence is all around them, they too have been desensitized to this violence, and mass killings take place and are talked about as everyday occurrence. Desensitization toward violence is here in our society, there is no turning back, but what we can do is guide our youth and make sure they understand that this is real and there is no off button when you are done. (goes both for video games an TV)

No scapegoats here, I am not advocating the removal or banning of anything. What I am doing here is trying to offer suggestions. I don't have the answer, but maybe with enough suggestion or opinions we can get past this knee jerk reaction to ban or outright defend everything and anything.

I want to thank Brain for the awsome Ar 308 build that he did. The guys at X-ring are top rate, and are very helpfull. I have posted pics on another thread, but here"s one more.