Infringing Rights And Raising Revenue On The Backs Of Gun Owners
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 7 months ago
“It was brought to Hawaii Firearms Coalition’s attention during this year’s legislative session that not one single firearms owner has been entered into the service. However, for more than two years, the state has been requiring firearm owners to sign a waiver (of their constitutional rights) and collecting the fees associated with the FBI Rap Back service.”
The state’s position is that new firearm purchases are going to require fingerprints and coerced “consent,” if you don’t you won’t get a permit, you have to pay fees and to be unenrolled, “a registrant must show documentation that all of his or her registered firearms are no longer in Hawaii, or have been sold.”
We’ve known for a very long time that gun permitting was a way for CLEOs to raise revenue. This is just icing on the cake for them. Oh, and not to mention, infringement of God-given rights and registration with the FedGov.
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On May 7, 2019 at 10:02 am, DAN III said:
ALCON,
Where is our beloved NRA on this ? Or how about everyone’s latest Freedom love-child, Gun Owners of America ? Better yet still, where are the state and local firearms organizations, clubs, citizens groups on this criminality by the Hawaii .gov scoundrels ?
The time is drawing ever more near when a repeat of 19 April 1775 is the only cure for the tyranny perpetrated upon citizens by the scum of government.
On May 7, 2019 at 3:03 pm, scott s. said:
Since the advent of the gun registration “permit to acquire” system, there was a one-time fee imposed to run a fingerprint check. But since they passed the “rap-back” law which authorized an additional charge to cover the state’s cost for getting the feds to maintain the system, they are now charging the full fee to everyone (I admit, I haven’t attempted to register anything since the “rap back” came into effect so it’s not personal knowledge.)
The local NRA affiliate (HRA) has been doing its part, but this new group (HFC) is suing based on the theory that by entering firearm permit holders into the “rap-back” system, the FBI is creating a “firearms registry” which is specifically prohibited under FOPA.
Keep in mind that in the Kingdom, registration was required to keep guns out of the hands of “undesirables” (i.e., Asians) and then during the Republic to prevent counter-revolution by the Royalists. After passage of the Organic Act and Hawaii achieving Territorial status, the Territorial governors and power brokers were all too happy to keep guns away from “locals”. It didn’t take much prodding on 7 Dec 1941 to get Gov Poindexter to declare martial law. All resident aliens were required to surrender their firearms.
On May 7, 2019 at 7:59 pm, Fred said:
I didn’t know that! The Japs attacked Pearl and the US gov took the guns of the natives? That makes perfect sense, in gov logic.