Bill Text: HI SB280 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Firearms; Ammunition Magazine Capacity
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-22 - Referred to PSM, JDL. [SB280 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB280-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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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 to read as follows:
"§134-8 Ownership, etc., of automatic firearms, silencers, etc., prohibited; penalties. (a) The manufacture, possession, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of any of the following is prohibited: assault pistols, except as provided by section 134-4(e); automatic firearms; rifles with barrel lengths less than sixteen inches; shotguns with barrel lengths less than eighteen inches; cannons; mufflers, silencers, or devices for deadening or muffling the sound of discharged firearms; hand grenades, dynamite, blasting caps, bombs, or bombshells, or other explosives; or any type of ammunition or any projectile component thereof coated with teflon or any other similar coating designed primarily to enhance its capability to penetrate metal or pierce protective armor; and any type of ammunition or any projectile component thereof designed or intended to explode or segment upon impact with its target.
(b) Any person who installs, removes, or alters a firearm part with the intent to convert the firearm to an automatic firearm shall be deemed to have manufactured an automatic firearm in violation of subsection (a).
[(c) The manufacture, possession, sale,
barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of detachable ammunition magazines
with a capacity in excess of ten 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 rounds of ammunition which have
been modified to accept no more than ten rounds and which are not capable of
being readily restored to a capacity of more than ten rounds.
(d)] (c) Any person violating
subsection (a) or (b) shall be guilty of a class C felony and shall be
imprisoned for a term of five years without probation. [Any person
violating subsection (c) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor except when a
detachable magazine prohibited under this section is possessed while inserted
into a pistol in which case the person shall be guilty of a class C felony.]"
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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Report Title:
Firearms; Ammunition Magazine Capacity
Description:
Repeals ten round capacity limit on detachable ammunition magazines.
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