This State is Coming for Gun Owners

Hawaii is finding an innovative way to discourage law abiding citizens from purchasing guns: treating them like criminals. As Townhall's Matt Vespa reports:

It’s as if we’re getting a preview of what Second Amendment rights would look like in Hillary Clinton’s America. Recently, California all but banned rifles and imposed background checks for ammunition. Now, Hawaii may become the first state that enters its gun-owning residents into a federal database (via AP):

Hawaii could become the first state in the United States to enter gun owners into an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island resident is arrested anywhere else in the country.

Most people entered in the "Rap Back" database elsewhere in the U.S. are those in "positions of trust," such as school teachers and bus drivers, said Stephen Fischer of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division. Hawaii could be the first state to add gun owners.

"I don't like the idea of us being entered into a database. It basically tells us that they know where the guns are, they can go grab them" said Jerry Ilo, a firearm and hunting instructor for the state. "We get the feeling that Big Brother is watching us."

Firearms registries are a way for state governments to keep track of who has guns and in what quantity. The only real value of information like that is that it expedites the confiscation of firearms under special emergency circumstances. Specifically, in the event that President Hillary Clinton, with two Supreme Court Justice appointments under her belt, declares a national state of emergency in the event of a mass shooting and calls for a "temporary" firearms ban.

We're that close to losing our right to bear arms, and states like Hawaii are part of the problem.

Source: AAN