Posted on 06/25/2016 12:37:31 PM PDT by progunner
Hawaii’s governor signed a bill making it the first U.S. state to place its residents who own firearms in a federal criminal record database and monitor them for possible wrongdoing anywhere in the country, his office said.
The move by gun control proponents in the liberal state represents an effort to institute some limits on firearms in the face of a bitter national debate over guns that this week saw Democratic lawmakers stage a sit-in at the U.S. House of Representatives.
Hawaii Governor David Ige, a Democrat, on Thursday signed into law a bill to have police in the state enroll people into an FBI criminal monitoring service after they register their firearms as already required, his office said in a statement
The Federal Bureau of Investigation database called “Rap Back” will allow Hawaii police to be notified when a firearm owner from the state is arrested anywhere in the United States.
Hawaii has become the first U.S. state to place firearm owners on the FBI’s Rap Back, which until now was used to monitor criminal activities by individuals under investigation or people in positions of trust such as school teachers and daycare workers.
“As you can imagine, the NRA finds this one of the most extreme bills we’ve ever seen,” said Amy Hunter, a spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association’s institute for legislative action.
The law could affect gun owners outside Hawaii, because the state requires visitors carrying guns to register, Hunter said.
As a result, they could be added to “Rap Back” with no clear protocol for being removed, she said.
Hawaii state Senator Will Espero, a Democrat and a co-author of the law who owns a gun, called the law “common sense legislation that does not hurt anyone.”
The law, which takes effect immediately, allows police in Hawaii to evaluate whether a firearm owner should continue to possess a gun after being arrested.
“This bill, it doesn’t even say your gun will automatically be taken away, it just means local police will be notified,” Espero said in a phone interview.
Ige’s office said he also signed into law two other firearms bills. One makes convictions for stalking and sexual assault among the criminal offenses disqualifying a person from gun ownership. The other requires firearm owners to surrender their weapons if diagnosed with a mental, behavioral or emotional disorder.
YEP! If you believe that I've got some prime land in Blacks Bayou, LA. I'd like to sell you.
Can’t we just kick ‘em out for violating SOMETHING ?
That would be absolutely fantastic!!!!
Wow
get caught jaywalking in Hawaii and they keep your guns. Sneaky bastards!
They are on islands for cryin’ out loud!.......
Libs be goin’ wild.
There will be much more of this kind of thing. We can expect them to do all kinds of outrageous things to gum up the works and sabotage various systems as it becomes more and more clear that Trump is going to be the next President.
The Left has a long tradition of knocking over the board and the table when they realize they can’t win the game.
‘shall not be infringed.’ Not ‘shall not be infringed, except by well meaning legislation meant to track people merely for exercising their rights....’
I’d love to see a gutsy Republican state start putting people in a database for getting an abortion or for public speaking or even more entertaining, for being a reporter.
‘Reporters are people who the public trusts and is issued specific identification that allows entry into areas which may be closed off to others. To allow someone like that to continue to have those privileges after a sex offense, a stalking charge, a domestic violence charge, a drug offense, mental illness, etc would endanger everyone.’
Man, I miss governments with guts.
The only case in which exercising Constitutional rights is reportable to a criminal data base.
This isn’t about terrorism-it’s about punishing everyone who isn’t a liberal.
What exactly constitutes a behavior or emotional disorder?
shall not be infringed
Unconstitutional Period!
Abortion is a perfect instance of bringing harm to a defenseless person. It is absolutely a report-able incident.
What we really need is a public registry for all government officials, agents and employees so we can keep an eye on them and make sure they aren’t doing anything illegal.
After all, “If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.”
has there ever been a single instance where a Hawaii resident gunowner carried their weapon stateside, and committed a crime with that weapon?
Has this been confirmed by another source?
It seems odd to me that a state could give direction to the feds - telling them who they need to place in their (fed) database.
actually, they are putting all gun owners THEY KNOW ABOUT in a database. :)
Exactly. Irritating even more so is the fact that SOME political hacks have to be aware of this law:
The "Conspiracy Against Rights" Law, Title 18, Chapter 13, Section 241.
It says: Any Two or More Persons - who conspire to deprive a citizen of a right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution (like the 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights), may be held personally responsible for damages. If these public officials conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate ANY PERSON in ANY STATE, Territory or District in the free exercise of any Right secured to him by the Constitution of the United States, that public servant(s) can be found guilty, and can be punished by up to 10 years in jail.
Asking that question.
“federal criminal record database”
They are effectively saying that all gun owners are criminals! Outrageous!
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