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On Friday, the Hawaii House passed Senate Bill 401, legislation that would expand the current ban on "assault pistols" to include certain rifles and shotguns in addition to banning standard capacity magazines. The bill will now head back to the Senate for a concurrence vote. This is the last opportunity to stop this bill before it heads to the Governor's desk.
Please contact your Senator today and urge them to oppose Senate Bill 401 and the procedural “gut and replace” tactics used to advance this bill. (find your senator here)
Additionally, please call House Leadership and politely request them not to bring Senate Bill 401 for a floor vote given the deceptive political maneuvering that undermines a fair and open legislative process.
- Speaker Nadine K. Nakamura – (808) 586-6100
- Vice Speaker Linda Ichiyama – (808) 586-6220
- Minority Leader Lauren Matsumoto – (808) 586-9490
As reported last week, (see flyer/image above) anti-gun legislators used procedural maneuvers to bypass deadlines and the committee hearing process by stuffing language from a defeated semi-automatic firearm ban bill into a new bill. The original bill, House Bill 893, did not receive a committee hearing in the Senate by the legislative deadline and should have been defeated for the year. On March 13th, however, the Chair of the House Committee on Judiciary Committee inserted the language from HB 893 into SB 401, thereby bypassing a Senate committee hearing on the bill.
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