Hawaii Action Needed! Procedural Maneuvers Are Putting Your Rights at Risk!

from NRA-ILA, Thursday, April 3, 2025

Anti-gun legislators have used procedural maneuvers to bypass deadlines and the committee hearing process by stuffing language from a defeated semi-automatic firearm ban bill into a new bill, Senate Bill 401.

SB 401, as amended, is now over 2,600 words long and will ban semi-automatic rifles with a detachable magazine, “assault shotguns”, and standard capacity magazines.

SB 401 could receive its second floor vote as early as today.

Please use the TAKE ACTION button below to contact your Representative and urge them to oppose this bill and the "gut and replace" tactics that were used to advance it.

Additionally, please call House Leadership and politely request them not to bring Senate Bill 401 for a floor vote given the deceptive political maneuvering that undermines a fair and open legislative process.

Speaker Nadine K. Nakamura – (808) 586-6100
Vice Speaker Linda Ichiyama – (808) 586-6220
Minority Leader Lauren Matsumoto – (808) 586-9490

House Bill 893, the firearm ban bill that has now been stuffed in Senate Bill 401, passed the House on March 3rd and was referred to committee in the Senate. Having not been scheduled for a public hearing in the Senate by the cutoff deadline, HB 893 should have been dead for the session.

On March 13th, however, the Chair of the House Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs inserted language from HB 893 into SB 401, bypassing a Senate committee hearing on the bill. SB 401 has now received its first floor vote and could pass the House as early as today.

Again, please use the TAKE ACTION button above to contact your Representative in opposition to the bill and politely contact House Leadership to request that SB 401 not be brought up for a floor vote.

Please stay tuned to the NRA-ILA website and your inbox for updates.

SB401: Text, Status

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