The state Board of Land and Natural Resources voted Friday to approve an area of land on Hawaii Island as a public shooting range for the purpose of supporting the state’s hunter safety program.
The state Board of Land and Natural Resources voted Friday to approve an area of land on Hawaii Island as a public shooting range for the purpose of supporting the state’s hunter safety program.
The range will be located on 40 acres in the area known as “Morita Camp” at the 16-mile marker on Saddle Road.
It is a relatively remote yet accessible area and considered a favorable place for people to improve marksmanship and practice the safe and responsible use of firearms, said the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.
According to DLNR, the area has been used as an unofficial shooting range. An official range is needed because there are none on Hawaii Island, the department said.
Access to the area is permitted through a valid hunting license.
Subscribe today for unlimited access.
Already a subscriber?
Login
Not ready to subscribe?
Register for limited access.
If you have a print subscription but require digital access,
activate your account.
Not all citizens are hunters. Why is a hunting license required to practice shooting a hand gun for safety and home protection? You just pulled the rug out from underneath the majority of the tax paying public who want to legally practice their 2nd Amendment right. You almost came close to doing the right thing but no cigar.
Dekine,
The state and county of Hawaii don’t believe you have the right to protect yourself.
You are supposed to call 911, die, and when the police decide to show up they
will fill out reports.
Please excuse my ignorance but does the mayor have any say in this?
State land.
I don’t think so.
That is a matter of fact and the damned demo rats tell you if you do not like their assine mode of operation then leave the state. I will leave when the demo rats take my guns from my cold dead hands.
Demo rats are stuck on stupid, failure is all they are capable of.
Paying $20/year for a hunting license doesn’t seem excessive to me and I’m sure the extra revenue going to the state will make the range easier to maintain without the gun haters complaining that their taxes support a shooting range.
It’s not the yearly $20. I had to be certified before I could register my hand gun. It stays in the home and I don’t need to take a required hunter education course nor do I ever intend to go hunting with it. Plus this is another entity that requires my personal information which is another unnecessary invasion of my privacy. If you need a valid hunting license to gain access means there is someone there to check up on you. If that’s the case let them charge a nominal entrance fee for non hunters who wish to keep proficient in the use of their firearm for home protection.
There won’t be anyone there to take people’s money. That’s why they’re doing it this way. DLNR will randomly stop by to make sure everyone there has a hunting license but other than that, you won’t see anyone. I think it’s pretty cool not to have to pay every time I go. Think of it as paying a yearly $20 membership fee to a range. Or, don’t go there and just shoot in your own private property like most of us do now.
Again, It’s not the yearly $20. I had to be certified before I could register
my hand gun. It stays in the home and I don’t need to take a required
hunter education course nor do I ever intend to go hunting with it. Plus
this is another entity that requires my personal information which is
another unnecessary invasion of my privacy. Sell a yearly pass for $20 at the same office.
Will there be benches, target stands, a range master?
No, no, and no. It’s the same range it has always been but now it’s open 7 days a week instead of weekends only and there are no caliber restrictions.