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This State Just Became FIRST To Put ALL Gun Owners In FBI Database
Tea Party ^ | June 25, 2016 @ 0942 am | Tea Party

Posted on 06/25/2016 12:37:31 PM PDT by progunner

Hawaii’s governor signed a bill making it the first U.S. 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.

As a result, they could be added to “Rap Back” with no clear protocol for being removed, she said.

Hawaii state Senator Will Espero, a Democrat and a co-author of the law who owns a gun, called the law “common sense legislation that does not hurt anyone.”

The law, which takes effect immediately, allows police in Hawaii to evaluate whether a firearm owner should continue to possess a gun after being arrested.

“This bill, it doesn’t even say your gun will automatically be taken away, it just means local police will be notified,” Espero said in a phone interview.

Ige’s office said he also signed into law two other firearms bills. One makes convictions for stalking and sexual assault among the criminal offenses disqualifying a person from gun ownership. The other requires firearm owners to surrender their weapons if diagnosed with a mental, behavioral or emotional disorder.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: fbi; fbirapback; fedgunenroll; hawaii; hawaiifedgunenroll
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“This bill, it doesn’t even say your gun will automatically be taken away, it just means local police will be notified,” Espero said in a phone interview.

YEP! If you believe that I've got some prime land in Blacks Bayou, LA. I'd like to sell you.

BOOK EM DANNO!!


The DEMe has stated that the right wing, gun owners are more of a threat to our beloved USA. That is a massive lie. Liberalism is the greater threat ten fold.

The GOPe has recently stated that THEY want to teach us, meaning "We The People" a lesson.
Time to teach THEM, those who work for "We The People" a lesson....

TIME TO VOTE THEM OUT AND ENACT TERM LIMITS


A term limit website

IN LIBERTY


1 posted on 06/25/2016 12:37:31 PM PDT by progunner
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To: progunner

Can’t we just kick ‘em out for violating SOMETHING ?


2 posted on 06/25/2016 12:38:55 PM PDT by knarf
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To: knarf

That would be absolutely fantastic!!!!


3 posted on 06/25/2016 12:40:07 PM PDT by progunner (no compromise)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

Wow


4 posted on 06/25/2016 12:40:56 PM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: progunner

get caught jaywalking in Hawaii and they keep your guns. Sneaky bastards!


5 posted on 06/25/2016 12:44:35 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: progunner

They are on islands for cryin’ out loud!.......


6 posted on 06/25/2016 12:45:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: knarf

Libs be goin’ wild.

There will be much more of this kind of thing. We can expect them to do all kinds of outrageous things to gum up the works and sabotage various systems as it becomes more and more clear that Trump is going to be the next President.

The Left has a long tradition of knocking over the board and the table when they realize they can’t win the game.


7 posted on 06/25/2016 12:46:12 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: progunner

‘shall not be infringed.’ Not ‘shall not be infringed, except by well meaning legislation meant to track people merely for exercising their rights....’

I’d love to see a gutsy Republican state start putting people in a database for getting an abortion or for public speaking or even more entertaining, for being a reporter.

‘Reporters are people who the public trusts and is issued specific identification that allows entry into areas which may be closed off to others. To allow someone like that to continue to have those privileges after a sex offense, a stalking charge, a domestic violence charge, a drug offense, mental illness, etc would endanger everyone.’

Man, I miss governments with guts.


8 posted on 06/25/2016 12:46:35 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: knarf

The only case in which exercising Constitutional rights is reportable to a criminal data base.


9 posted on 06/25/2016 12:47:16 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop the Left and save the world.)
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To: progunner

This isn’t about terrorism-it’s about punishing everyone who isn’t a liberal.


10 posted on 06/25/2016 12:48:29 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: progunner

What exactly constitutes a behavior or emotional disorder?


11 posted on 06/25/2016 12:48:35 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: progunner

shall not be infringed

Unconstitutional Period!


12 posted on 06/25/2016 12:49:30 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: kingu

Abortion is a perfect instance of bringing harm to a defenseless person. It is absolutely a report-able incident.


13 posted on 06/25/2016 12:50:09 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop the Left and save the world.)
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To: progunner

What we really need is a public registry for all government officials, agents and employees so we can keep an eye on them and make sure they aren’t doing anything illegal.

After all, “If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.”


14 posted on 06/25/2016 12:50:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If the Orlando terrorist doesnÂ’t represent all Muslims, why does he represent all gun-owners?)
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To: progunner

has there ever been a single instance where a Hawaii resident gunowner carried their weapon stateside, and committed a crime with that weapon?


15 posted on 06/25/2016 12:50:54 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: progunner

Has this been confirmed by another source?

It seems odd to me that a state could give direction to the feds - telling them who they need to place in their (fed) database.


16 posted on 06/25/2016 12:51:54 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: progunner

actually, they are putting all gun owners THEY KNOW ABOUT in a database. :)


17 posted on 06/25/2016 12:54:28 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper ((Just say no to HRC))
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To: faucetman
Unconstitutional Period!

Exactly. Irritating even more so is the fact that SOME political hacks have to be aware of this law:

The "Conspiracy Against Rights" Law, Title 18, Chapter 13, Section 241.

It says: Any Two or More Persons - who conspire to deprive a citizen of a right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution (like the 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights), may be held personally responsible for damages. If these public officials conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate ANY PERSON in ANY STATE, Territory or District in the free exercise of any Right secured to him by the Constitution of the United States, that public servant(s) can be found guilty, and can be punished by up to 10 years in jail.

18 posted on 06/25/2016 12:54:56 PM PDT by progunner (no compromise)
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To: Husker24
What exactly constitutes a behavior or emotional disorder?

Asking that question.

19 posted on 06/25/2016 12:55:20 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: progunner

“federal criminal record database”

They are effectively saying that all gun owners are criminals! Outrageous!


20 posted on 06/25/2016 12:55:26 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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