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[quote=Anonymous]New laws in Hawaii that directly link to our discussion about gun registration, and how state governments can get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them. Key bits below.

[quote]June 26, 2016 -- http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2016/0626/Hawaii-gun-owner-law-joins-state-by-state-legislation-trend

Hawaii’s governor signed a bill on Thursday that will make his state the first to put its gun owners in a federal criminal record database. The system, FBI’s “Rap Back” service, [u]will notify Hawaiian law enforcement when a Hawaiian firearm owner or applicant is arrested anywhere in the country, so police can evaluate whether the owner may continue to legally own the weapon[/u].

Hawaii, which had the fewest gun deaths per capita of any state in 2015, already had some of the nation’s strictest gun laws, including a requirement that all guns in the state be registered with local police.

He signed two other gun-control measures on the same day intended to prevent people convicted of sexual assault and people diagnosed with a significant mental disorder from owning guns.

In response to concerns that law-abiding citizens are being entered into a database for exercising their constitutional right, Maj. Richard Robinson from the Honolulu Police Department described the new law as providing [u]essentially “an ongoing background check on firearm owners to determine their eligibility to own and possess a firearm,"[/u] as CNN reported.[/quote]

Yay Hawaii!  Lead the way.[/quote]

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