A couple of weeks ago I wrote Senator Gabbard asking him if he would re-introduce next session (January) the bills he had introduced for me last year (1. eliminate electric gun ban, 2. alter maximum handgun magazine capacity from 10 to 17, and 3. change "may issue" for CCW to "shall issue" CCW). He said he would and would get me the new bill numbers in January. [None of the bills were heard in any committees, and I don't expect anything different this next year... okay... or really ever unless forced by a court order.]

If anyone has any idea for a specific bill you would like to see introduced, now or last month would be the time to do it. Hopefully your Rep or Senator would be willing to introduce something for you as "submitted by request of a third party" if they themselves don't really support the subject matter of the bill. Perhaps zippz will cover this in the upcoming (Dec. 15) gun rights workshop, but the sooner the better... time is already short for getting a bill written by the legal staff... unless they happen to have something very similar from past sessions.

I also asked Senator Gabbard if he would be willing to either change the CCW "shall issue" bill to include "open carry", or to submit a separate"shall issue" "open carry" stand alone bill, and he said he would not. So there's that.

I have an idea for a new permit to purchase system that would accomplish all the same things concerns and be good for gun owners. My idea is a card license with a photo ID and it would replace the paper license given. This license would be good for one year for both pistols and rifles. The added benefit that could get the liberals on board is that when someone wants to sell a gun they call a phone number to the police, give them an ID number on the card, and the police verify the permit is valid, and the sale can be made. This enables sellers to make sure that they are selling it to someone who is legally allowed to purchase a gun. It also makes it easier for all of us regular lawful gun owners.

I don't know if they want it written out for them or we detail the idea and they put it into legalize.

I have an idea for a new permit to purchase system that would accomplish all the same things concerns and be good for gun owners. My idea is a card license with a photo ID and it would replace the paper license given. This license would be good for one year for both pistols and rifles. The added benefit that could get the liberals on board is that when someone wants to sell a gun they call a phone number to the police, give them an ID number on the card, and the police verify the permit is valid, and the sale can be made. This enables sellers to make sure that they are selling it to someone who is legally allowed to purchase a gun. It also makes it easier for all of us regular lawful gun owners.

I don't know if they want it written out for them or we detail the idea and they put it into legalize.

The legislature has staff that write the actual legislation. Find a legislator to "sponsor" it. But I can tell you right now, the Hawaii County PD has absolutely no interest in making any step of any process related to firearms any easier or more convenient, no matter how rational, logical, or even "safer" it might be... but maybe the legislators can be convinced and impose it on the rights-denying police department.

Also, I meant to mention in the opening post that I had asked Senator Gabbard if the bills might be publicly available prior to the actual beginning of the session, so we could see what's coming, but he said no, they are not. Seems like public disclosure as soon as a bill is written would be more "transparent". But since they are fighting in court to keep "gut and replace", obviously "transparent" isn't on their agenda.

Eliminate HPD process. It's onerous and burdensome and a waste of taxpayer dollars

Eliminate having to purchase a handgun before you get the permit.

Isn't the NICS process good enough? While I disagree with it, keep a 10 work/14 calendar day waiting period. Have registration done at the FFL. It was done in Clark County that way forever and is still done in many other jurisdictions. They can still mandate private transfers through HPD.

A little late but nows the time to submit your requests to the legislature.  Provide detailed bullet points of exactly what you want and the purpose of it.  Attach examples, facts, copies of other states laws etc.  Then call your reps office to make sure they understand what you want.