Report Title:
Firearms; Permit to Acquire
Description:
Exempts from the permitting requirements of firearms law, those firearm transfers conducted by a federal firearms licensee who has complied with the background check requirements of the national instant criminal background check system.
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
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TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to firearms.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 134-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) [No] Except in the case of
a transfer conducted by a federal firearms licensee in compliance with the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993, Public
Law 103-159, including a determination through the national instant criminal background
check system that transfer of the firearm does not violate section 922(g) or
(n) of Title 18, United States Code, or State law, no person shall
acquire the ownership of a firearm, whether usable or unusable, serviceable or
unserviceable, modern or antique, registered under prior law or by a prior
owner or unregistered, either by purchase, gift, inheritance, bequest, or in
any other manner, whether procured in the State or imported by mail, express,
freight, or otherwise, until the person has first procured from the chief of
police of the county of the person's place of business or, if there is no place
of business, the person's residence or, if there is neither place of business nor
residence, the person's place of sojourn, a permit to acquire the ownership of
a firearm as prescribed in this section. When title to any firearm is acquired
by inheritance or bequest, the foregoing permit shall be obtained before taking
possession of a firearm; provided that upon presentation of a copy of the death
certificate of the owner making the bequest, any heir or legatee may transfer
the inherited or bequested firearm directly to a dealer licensed under section
134-31 or licensed by the United States Department of the Treasury without
complying with the requirements of this section."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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