Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2170 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the sale of ammunition unless the purchaser shows registration for the firearm for which the ammunition is to be purchased.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Health, Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Maui County Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, and Honolulu Police Department. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Rifle Association and nine individuals.

Your Committee finds that, often, illegally obtained firearms are used to commit crimes. Your Committee further finds that requiring proof of registration and identification to buy ammunition will make it more difficult to obtain ammunition for illegal firearms. It is for this reason that your Committee believes that this measure is necessary and will take one step toward circumventing crimes committed with illegally obtained firearms.

Your Committee has amended this measure to exempt firearms manufactured before 1899 from ammunition purchasing requirements.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2170, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2170, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.