Looked at the amendments again removing the ban on possession and control and still banning sales and transfer.
HRS 134-5 states under 21 can "may carry and use ... suitable ammunition while actually engaged in hunting or target shooting..."
So they can use ammunition they already have. However no one can sell, distribute, or transfer ammunition to them. So they can use what they got now, but can't get anymore once the law goes into effect. Still messed up.
What’s meant by “distribute, or otherwise transfer”? If I’m at the range or hunting with a minor, am I prohibited from handing a box of ammo to the minor because it’s a transfer? Seems like these scenarios in combination with HB2342 would make the person a class C felon.
SB2845"§134- Sale of ammunition to a person under the age of twenty-one; prohibition; penalty. (a) No person shall knowingly sell, offer to sell,
distribute, or otherwise transfer ammunition for any firearm to any person who is under the age of twenty-one.
(b) It is a defense to a prosecution for the sale of ammunition to a person under the age of twenty-one that the defendant sold the ammunition to the person under the age of twenty-one with the belief, which was reasonable under the circumstances, that the person under the age of twenty-one had attained the age of twenty-one.
(c) Any person violating subsection (a) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."HB2342“~134- Carrying or use of a firearm in the commission of a separate misdemeanor; penalty. (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to knowingly carry on the person or have within the person’s immediate control or intentionally use or threaten to use a firearm while engaged in the commission of a separate misdemeanor offense, whether the firearm was loaded or not, and whether operable or not; provided that a person shall not be prosecuted under this section when the separate offense is an offense otherwise defined by this chapter or is the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm under section 707- 714.5.(b) A conviction and sentence under this section shall be in addition to and not in lieu of any conviction and sentence for the separate misdemeanor; provided that the sentence imposed under this section may run concurrently or consecutively with the sentence for the separate misdemeanor.
(c) Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a class C felony.”