House Bills 125, 136 and 138 impose firearm storage mandates…House Bill 150 prohibits an individual from lending a firearm to another individual… Senate Bill 174 imposes egregious restrictions on the purchase and possession of ammunition… Senate Bill 128 removes an individual’s constitutional right to keep and bear arms for the conviction OR mere prosecution of trespassing on agricultural land… Senate Bill 308 expands Hawaii’s existing ban on detachable magazines capable of accepting more than 10 rounds to all firearms, not just for pistols. [More]
About what you’d expect from people stupid enough to vote for this…
250 years ago, give or take, those “restrictions” were called “infringements” and/or “intolerable acts.”
Where are folks like Josiah Quincy II when we really need them. Certainly not in today’s Massachusetts.
“Perhaps seeking to enhance his standing in advance of the selection of delegates to the First Continental Congress, in May 1774 he published Observations on the Act of Parliament, commonly called The Boston Port Bill, with Thoughts on Civil Society and Standing Armies, in which he urged patriots and heroes to form a compact for opposition and for vengeance.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Quincy_II
In that pamphlet he might have been the first to use the phrase “well regulated militia” and described his thoughts on what one should entail.
“No free government was ever founded or ever preserved it’s liberty without uniting the characters of citizen and soldier in those destined for defence of the state. The sword should never be in the hands of any, but those who have an interest in the safety of the community, who fight for their religion and their offspring
;—and repell invaders that they may return to their private affairs and the enjoyment of freedom and good order. Such are a well regulated militia composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property as individuals, and their rights as freemen. Such is the policy of a truly wise nation, and such was the wisdom of the antient Britons.”
https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/2598