Bill Text: HI HB1531 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Firearms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-12-01 - Carried over to 2020 Regular Session. [HB1531 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-HB1531-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO FIREARMS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
"Part . aSSAULT wEAPONS
§134-A
Definitions. As used in this
part:
"Assault weapon", excluding any firearm
modified to render it permanently inoperable, means:
(1) Any selective-fire firearm capable of fully automatic, semiautomatic, or burst fire at the option of the user or any of the following specified semiautomatic firearms: Algimec Agmi; Armalite AR-180; Australian Automatic Arms SAP Pistol; Auto-Ordnance Thompson type; Avtomat Kalashnikov AK-47 type; Barrett Light-Fifty model 82A1; Beretta AR-70; Bushmaster Auto Rifle and Auto Pistol; Calico models M-900, M-950, and 100‑P; Chartered Industries of Singapore SR-88; Colt AR-15 and Sporter; Daewoo K-1, K-2, Max-1, and Max-2; Encom MK-IV, MP-9, and MP-45; Fabrique Nationale FN/FAL, FN/LAR, or FN/FNC; FAMAS MAS 223; Feather AT-9 and Mini-AT; Federal XC-900 and XC-450; Franchi SPAS‑12 and LAW-12; Galil AR and ARM; Goncz High-Tech Carbine and High-Tech Long Pistol; Heckler & Koch HK‑91, HK-93, HK-94, and SP-89; Holmes MP-83; MAC-10, MAC-11, and MAC-11 Carbine type; Intratec TEC-9 and Scorpion; Iver Johnson Enforcer model 3000; Ruger Mini-14/5F folding stock model only; Scarab Skorpion; SIG 57 AMT and 500 series; Spectre Auto Carbine and Auto Pistol; Springfield Armory BM59, SAR-48, and G-3; Sterling MK-6 and MK-7; Steyr AUG; Street Sweeper and Striker 12 revolving cylinder shotguns; USAS-12; UZI Carbine, Mini-Carbine, and Pistol; Weaver Arms Nighthawk; or Wilkinson "Linda" Pistol;
(2) A part or combination of parts designed or intended to convert a firearm into an assault weapon, as defined in paragraph (1) of this definition, or any combination of parts from which an assault weapon, as defined in paragraph (1) of this definition, may be rapidly assembled if those parts are in the possession or under the control of the same person;
(3) Any semiautomatic firearm not listed in paragraph (1) of this definition that meets the following criteria:
(A) A semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least two of the following:
(i) A folding or telescoping stock;
(ii) A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
(iii) A bayonet mount;
(iv) A flash or sound suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash or sound suppressor; and
(v) A grenade launcher; or
(B) A semiautomatic pistol that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least two of the following:
(i) An ammunition magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip;
(ii) A threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender, flash or sound suppressor, or forward handgrip;
(iii) A shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits the shooter to hold the firearm with the nontrigger hand without being burned;
(iv) A manufactured weight of fifty ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded;
(v) A centerfire pistol with an overall length of twelve inches or more; and
(vi) A semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm.
It does not include an antique pistol as defined in this chapter or a curio or relic as those terms are used in title 18 United States Code section 921(a)(13) or title 27 Code of Federal Regulations section 478.11; or
(C) A semiautomatic shotgun that has at least two of the following:
(i) A folding or telescoping stock;
(ii) A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
(iii) A fixed magazine capacity in excess of five rounds; and
(iv) An ability to accept a detachable magazine; or
(4) A part or combination of parts designed or intended to convert a firearm into an assault weapon, as defined in paragraph (3) of this definition, or any combination of parts from which an assault weapon, as defined in paragraph (3) of this definition, may be rapidly assembled if those parts are in the possession or under the control of the same person.
§134-B Distribution,
transfer, etc., of assault weapons prohibited; penalty. (a) Any person who,
within this State, distributes, transports, imports, brings, or causes to be
brought into the State, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who transfers
any assault weapon, shall be guilty of a class B felony.
(b) This section shall not apply to the sale of assault weapons to the department of public safety, police departments, state department of defense, or to the armed services of the United States in connection with the discharge of official duties.
§134-C
Ownership, etc., of assault
weapons prohibited; penalty. (a) Any person who,
within this State, manufactures, possesses, sells, barters, trades, gifts, or
acquires any assault weapon, shall be guilty of a class C felony.
(b) This section shall not apply to the sale of assault weapons to the department of public safety, police departments, state department of defense, or to the armed services of the United States in connection with the discharge of official duties.
§134-D Relinquishment of assault weapon to law enforcement. Any individual may arrange in advance to relinquish an assault weapon to a county police department or the department of public safety for disposal, without penalty."
SECTION 2. Section 134-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by repealing the definition of "assault pistol".
[""Assault pistol"
means a semiautomatic pistol that accepts a detachable magazine and has two or
more of the following characteristics:
(1) An ammunition
magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip;
(2) A threaded
barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward hand
grip, or silencer;
(3) A shroud that
is attached to or partially or completely encircles the barrel and permits the
shooter to hold the firearm with the second hand without being burned;
(4) A manufactured
weight of fifty ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded;
(5) A centerfire
pistol with an overall length of twelve inches or more; or
(6) It is a
semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm;
but does not include a firearm with a barrel
sixteen or more inches in length, an antique pistol as defined in this section,
or a curio or relic as those terms are used in 18 United States Code section
921(a)(13) or 27 Code of Federal Regulations section 478.11."]
SECTION 3. Section 134-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§134-4 Transfer, possession of firearms.
(a) No transfer of any rifle
having a barrel length of sixteen inches or over or any shotgun having a barrel
length of eighteen inches or over, whether usable or unusable, serviceable or
unserviceable, modern or antique, registered under prior law or by a prior
owner, or unregistered shall be made to any person under the age of eighteen
years, except as provided by section 134-5.
(b)
No person shall possess any firearm that is owned by another, regardless
of whether the owner has consented to possession of the firearm, without a
permit from the chief of police of the appropriate county, except as provided
in subsection (c) and section 134-5.
(c)
Any lawfully acquired rifle or shotgun may be lent to an adult for use
within the State for a period not to exceed fifteen days without a permit;
provided that where the rifle or shotgun is to be used outside of the State,
the loan may be for a period not to exceed seventy-five days.
(d)
No person shall knowingly lend a firearm to any person who is prohibited
from ownership or possession of a firearm under section 134-7.
[(e)
After July 1, 1992, no person shall bring or cause to be brought
into the State an assault pistol. No
assault pistol may be sold or transferred on or after July 1, 1992, to
anyone within the State other than to a dealer licensed under section 134-32 or
the chief of police of any county except that any person who obtains title by
bequest or intestate succession to an assault pistol registered within the
State shall, within ninety days, render the weapon permanently inoperable, sell
or transfer the weapon to a licensed dealer or the chief of police of any
county, or remove the weapon from the State.]"
SECTION 4. Section 134-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(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."
SECTION 5. Section 706-660.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
1. By amending its title to read:
"§706-660.1 Sentence of
imprisonment for use of a firearm, [semiautomatic firearm,] assault
weapon, or automatic firearm in a felony."
2. By amending subsections (3) and (4) to read:
"(3) A person convicted of a felony, where the
person had [a semiautomatic firearm] an assault weapon or
automatic firearm in the person's possession or used or threatened its use
while engaged in the commission of the felony, whether the [semiautomatic
firearm] assault weapon or automatic firearm was loaded or not, and
whether operable or not, shall in addition to the indeterminate term of
imprisonment provided for the grade of offense be sentenced to a mandatory minimum
term of imprisonment without possibility of parole or probation the length of
which shall be as follows:
(a) For murder in the second degree and attempted murder in the second degree--twenty years;
(b) For a class A felony--fifteen years;
(c) For a class B felony--ten years; and
(d) For a class C felony--five years.
The sentence of imprisonment for a felony involving
the use of [a semiautomatic firearm] an assault weapon or
automatic firearm as provided in this subsection shall not be subject to the
procedure for determining a minimum term of imprisonment prescribed under
section 706-669; provided [further] that a person who is imprisoned in a
correctional institution as provided in this subsection shall become subject to
the parole procedure as prescribed in section 706-670 only upon expiration of
the term of mandatory imprisonment fixed under paragraph (a), (b), (c), or (d).
(4) In this section:
"Assault weapon" has the same meaning as defined in section 134-A.
"Automatic firearm" has the same meaning as defined in section 134-1.
"Firearm" has the same
meaning as defined in section 134-1 except that it does not include ["semiautomatic
firearm"] "assault weapon" or "automatic
firearm".
["Semiautomatic
firearm" means any firearm that uses the energy of the explosive in a
fixed cartridge to extract a fired cartridge and chamber a fresh cartridge with
each single pull of the trigger.]"
SECTION 6. Section 706-662, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§706-662 Criteria for extended terms of imprisonment.
A defendant who has been convicted of a felony may be subject to an
extended term of imprisonment under section 706-661 if it is proven beyond a
reasonable doubt that an extended term of imprisonment is necessary for the protection
of the public and that the convicted defendant satisfies one or more of the
following criteria:
(1) The defendant is a persistent offender in that the defendant has previously been convicted of two or more felonies committed at different times when the defendant was eighteen years of age or older;
(2) The defendant is a professional criminal in that:
(a) The circumstances of the crime show that the defendant has knowingly engaged in criminal activity as a major source of livelihood; or
(b) The defendant has substantial income or resources not explained to be derived from a source other than criminal activity;
(3) The defendant is a dangerous person in that the defendant has been subjected to a psychiatric or psychological evaluation that documents a significant history of dangerousness to others resulting in criminally violent conduct, and this history makes the defendant a serious danger to others. Nothing in this section precludes the introduction of victim-related data to establish dangerousness in accord with the Hawaii rules of evidence;
(4) The defendant is a multiple offender in that:
(a) The defendant is being sentenced for two or more felonies or is already under sentence of imprisonment for any felony; or
(b) The maximum terms of imprisonment authorized for each of the defendant's crimes, if made to run consecutively, would equal or exceed in length the maximum of the extended term imposed or would equal or exceed forty years if the extended term imposed is for a class A felony;
(5) The defendant is an offender against the elderly, handicapped, or a minor eight years of age or younger in that:
(a) The defendant attempts or commits any of the following crimes: murder, manslaughter, a sexual offense that constitutes a felony under chapter 707, robbery, felonious assault, burglary, or kidnapping; and
(b) The defendant, in the course of committing or attempting to commit the crime, inflicts serious or substantial bodily injury upon a person who has the status of being:
(i) Sixty years of age or older;
(ii) Blind, a paraplegic, or a quadriplegic; or
(iii) Eight years of age or younger; and
the person's status is known or reasonably should be known to the defendant;
(6) The defendant is a hate crime offender in that:
(a) The defendant is convicted of a crime under chapter 707, 708, or 711; and
(b) The defendant
intentionally selected a victim or, in the case of a property crime, the
property that was the object of a crime, because of hostility toward the actual
or perceived race, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, gender
identity or expression, or sexual orientation of any person. For purposes of this subsection, "gender
identity or expression" includes a person's actual or perceived gender, as
well as a person's gender identity, gender-related self-image, gender-related
appearance, or gender-related expression, regardless of whether that gender
identity, gender-related self-image, gender-related appearance, or
gender-related expression is different from that traditionally associated with
the person's sex at birth; [or]
(7) The defendant is
convicted under section 707-702.5 and the defendant did not remain at the scene
of the crime and render reasonable assistance to an injured person, including
acts and omissions in violation of section 291C-12[.]; or
(8) The defendant uses an assault weapon, as defined in section 134-A, in the course of committing murder in the first or second degree, manslaughter, kidnapping, sexual assault, assault in the first or second degree, robbery, burglary, or theft."
SECTION 7. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 8. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the Act that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act are severable.
SECTION 9. In codifying the new sections added by section 1 of this Act, the revisor of statutes shall substitute appropriate section numbers for the letters used in designating the new sections in this Act.
SECTION 10. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 11. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Firearms; Assault Weapons; Ban
Description:
Prohibits any person from distributing, transporting, importing, bringing, or causing to be brought into the State; keeping for sale, or offering or exposing for sale; or transferring, manufacturing, possessing, selling, bartering, trading, gifting, or acquiring any assault weapon. Defines assault weapon. Authorizes the courts to impose an extended term of imprisonment for an offender who uses an assault weapon in the course of committing certain crimes.
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