Bill Text: HI SB237 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Firearms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-22 - Referred to PSM, JDC. [SB237 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB237-Introduced.html
THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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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 134-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
"(c) The manufacture, possession, sale, barter,
trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of detachable ammunition magazines with a
capacity in excess of [ten] seventeen rounds which are designed
for or capable of use with a pistol is prohibited. This subsection shall not apply to magazines
originally designed to accept more than [ten] seventeen rounds of
ammunition which have been modified to accept no more than [ten] seventeen
rounds and which are not capable of being readily restored to a capacity of
more than [ten] seventeen rounds."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2019.
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Report Title:
Firearms; Ammunition Magazine Capacity
Description:
Increases the maximum detachable ammunition magazine capacity for pistols that may be manufactured, possessed, sold, bartered, traded, gifted, transferred, or acquired.
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