Hawaii: Firearm Storage Bill Scheduled for Decision Making Hearing on April 1st [More]
April Fools!
Notes from the Resistance
Hawaii: Firearm Storage Bill Scheduled for Decision Making Hearing on April 1st [More]
April Fools!
A Hawaii State Senate Committee advanced five gun control bills, including measures on secure storage, ghost guns, and gun violence prevention, despite opposition from gun rights advocates. [More]
No one ever said the Spirit of Aloha was a benign one.
Ninth Circuit (Finally) Rules Hawaii’s Gun Purchase Permit and Registration Time Limits are Unconstitutional [More]
The whole damn scheme is unconstitutional.
On January 16, 2025, Honolulu US District Judge Micah W.J. Smith “permanently enjoined” the Hawaii Attorney General from “enforcing (a gun ownership ban) against … COFA migrants.”The ruling in Peter v Lopez comes in response to a November 27, 2024 lawsuit filed by Second Amendment attorneys Alan Beck and Kevin O’Grady. This is the latest in a long string of Hawaii Second Amendment victories scored by the duo. [More]
They’re legally here…? Then what’s the problem?
Below is the HIFICO 2025 bill tracker. it will be updated as bills are updated. [More]
How Paradise is lost…
Federal Appeals Judge ATTACKS Ninth Circuit for Gaming 2nd Amendment Cases [Watch]
We talked about this butterfly knife/2A case here.
Judge Lawrence VanDyke sounds like a perfect SCOTUS replacement.
Sotomayor ain’t exactly looking peppy these days…
[Via Jess]
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…
Hawaii Judges Say ‘to Hell with the Constitution’ [More]
It’s a Kapu Tradition!
The AG report lists now medical cannabis patients under the category of “mental incompetence /impairment.” And unlike others in this subcategory, medical cannabis patients remain automatically ineligible for a long time since they cannot reapply until their medical cannabis (a.k.a. “329”) cards have been expired for a year or longer. [More]
Talk about projection by the constitutionally incompetent and impaired…
Coming from people with Marijuana Psychosis Symptoms…
I wonder if ATF is monitoring credit card transactions…
[Via George Pace]
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to Hawaii’s gun-licensing law, though three justices expressed a willingness to hear arguments over the issue later [More]
With “shall not be infringed” being the metric, that this is even an allowed to be an issue is one of the greatest frauds of our time.
Lambert told reporters the department is pushing for state legislation that would make possession of three or more gun parts a misdemeanor, which would allow law enforcement to educate legal firearm owners who may not be aware of the ghost gun issue. [More]
That’s one way to characterize dynamic entries with guns drawn…
[Via Jess]
Did you know that Hawaii currently lacks any state-funded shooting facilities across all counties? This means limited opportunities for safe firearm training, recreational shooting, and practice for our local law enforcement. [More]
No one really believes Marxist citizen disarmamament fanatics when they mouth the words “commonsense gun safety,” do they?
Instead of American history, the Hawaii court looked at the island’s pre-American history for guidance on the protections provided by its state constitution. [More]
Does this mean they’re going to start throwing gun owners into volcanoes?
FULL TEXT: ATF Lahaina Fire Report [More]
Considering means, motive, and opportunity, I have my own theory…
Two months after the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shared its findings on the cause of the Lahaina wildfire with Maui County officials, the agency continues to withhold that information from the public. The bureau’s spokesman said he is mystified as to why. [More]
I hope no one is suggesting the impact on property values has worked to the advantage of certain connected parties or anything… or that certain agencies are motivated by anything other than the whole truth…
Honolulu shooting leaves 4 dead, 2 injured … Police have not yet identified any of the victims or the two men who exchanged gunfire. [More]
Maybe because the Hawaii Free Press says they’re “Two Politically Connected Waianae Families“…?
In other Trouble in Paradise news, scroll down to “Stand your ground here and get 40 hours of lockup.”
Family identifies suspect in deadly Waianae shooting that stemmed from dispute between neighbors… Witnesses reported that … the suspect who lives across the street, used a front-end loader to ram multiple cars into their home along Waianae Valley Road after a dispute. [More]
It was licensed and registered, I trust…
[Via Steve T]
DLE investigators were “dragging” the investigation out “hoping people get more scared, now this poor kid ran out of money. Can everyone see the picture I’m painting, threatened, afraid, no money, going to jail, can’t talk to no one, what’s there to live for, right?,” wrote Rodriguez, who blamed DLE’s top leaders and the head CID investigator for Kagehiro’s death. “Now he is gone.…” [More]
Do “just following orders” Only Ones really believe those giving such orders won’t eat their own when it suits their purposes?
That and ask a “Police should be the only ones armed” type who exploits suicide as justification for citizen disarmamament to address the elephant in the room:
More cops die of suicide than die of shootings and traffic accidents combined.
State DLE Calls Gun Buyback Successful [More]
For whom?
HPD investigating complaints about false arrests by officers looking for drunk drivers [More]
The Spirit of Aloha…
Hey, gotta raise revenues to fund our tyranny in court…
[Via Michael G]
Hawaii’s Democrat Gov. Signs Bill Barring People Under the Age of 21 from Buying or Possessing Ammunition [More]
The Kapu Tradition lives on in the post-Igeocracy.
They know they’ll end up losing and the money could be spent on needed things, but they don’t care. And no one will hold them to account because stupid citizenship malpractitioners dominate the population.
[Via bondmen]
Judge’s Excuse To Ignore SCOTUS Is Ridiculously DUMB [Watch]
At least he makes a spirited argument.
[Via Jess]
The Second Amendment Foundation has filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Hawaii resident Christopher L. Wilson’s petition for a writ of certiorari in his challenge of the Hawaii state Supreme Court’s decree that individual citizens in the Aloha State do not have the right to carry firearms for self-defense outside of their homes. [More]
If government can say you don’t have it there, it can say you don’t have it anywhere.
Will US Supreme Court Hear ‘Spirit of Aloha’ Gun Rights Case? [More]
Or will barbaric primitives continue to impose Kapu traditions?
Maui Fire Department Battalion Chief Arrested for Child Sex Crimes [More]
Talk about “The Spirit of Aloha“…
And the chief refers to him as “Mr. Rogers”!
I’m reminded of a a feature in a 1977 issue of National Lampoon.
Sometimes I wonder if the memory is a curse…
[Via Michael G]