Welp it looks like our island friends are well on their way towards becoming a police state:
While the issue of gun control has made little headway in Congress, Hawaii this week enacted a series of gun laws, one of which the governor says makes it the first state to put firearm owners into a database.
That database, which is called the “Rap Back” system, is operated by the FBI and would notify police when a gun owner is arrested for a crime anywhere in the United States.
“This will allow county police departments in Hawaii to evaluate whether the firearm owner may continue to legally possess and own firearms,” the Hawaii governor’s office said in a statement.
#hinews: Hawai‘i becomes 1st state in nation to auth. enrollment of firearms owners in centralized info system pic.twitter.com/x6pwbGcEyX
— Governor David Ige (@GovHawaii) June 24, 2016
Here’s how the NRA responded:
Breaking: exercising constitutional rights in #Hawaii now gets you entered into a federal watchlist, er, database https://t.co/kL4YSPZnwc
— NRA (@NRA) June 24, 2016
Yup, kinda.
The problem is that it won’t stop there. There will be another shooting. and Hawaii will encroach more on their citizens’ rights. And if they did it then you can be sure other states will…