Hawaii proposes putting gun owners in federal database.

http://ift.tt/245QYQh

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Hawaii could become the first state in the United States to enter gun owners into an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island resident is arrested anywhere else in the country. Most people entered in the "Rap Back" database elsewhere in the U.S. are those in "positions of trust," such as school teachers and bus drivers, ....Hawaii could be the first state to add gun owners.

I wonder what kind of arrest would trigger notification?

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Yet others say gun owners shouldn't have to be entered in a database to practice a constitutional right. "You're curtailing that right by requiring that a name be entered into a database without doing anything wrong," said Kenneth Lawson, faculty at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law.

No kidding.

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Even though other states don't enter gun owners in the database, Honolulu Police Department Maj. Richard Robinson said it will still benefit Hawaii police. Right now, Hawaii gun owners undergo a background check only when they register a gun, so police have no way of knowing if they're disqualified from owning a gun in the future unless they try to register a new firearm.

I think the police have a very good idea that someone might be disqualified from owning a gun if they are convicted of a felony or other crime which makes a person unqualified to own a gun. Hawaii maintains a registry of all firearms brought into the state since 1994.

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The cost to enter names in the database will be covered by a fee paid by gun owners, which wasn't defined in the bill.

This part is really going to annoy some people. Will Hawaii charge a fee to worship or speak next? It might be a real money maker for them.

The bill is here; http://ift.tt/245QD00

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SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on January 7, 2059.

A typo I presume. :) Unless it is supposed to take affect 43 years from now.

Ranb

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