Dozens of people packed a third-floor conference room to testify against the proposed legislation.
Person after person told Judiciary Chair Karl Rhoads that the bill would actually make Hawaii less safe. They said NRA gun-safety trainers would quit if they weren’t exempt from liability in the case of injury resulting from a gun going off during a training session.
There’s a mountain of testimony available here. Read the legislation here.
— Nathan Eagle
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