Hawaii puts gun owners on FBI criminal database
As the gun control debate
goes from full boil to simmer with the congressional recess, we turn to
see what's going on in the states regarding the issue. We see this (link is external), out of Hawaii. And it is stunning:
Hawaii's
governor signed a bill making it the first 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.
At
least the gun control mask is completely off now. The intent is no
longer to just get rid of guns (and possibly that annoying Second Amendment), but to move toward criminalizing gun ownership.
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