SB2845 prohibits individuals from selling ammunition to a person under the age of 21. Additionally, it prohibits individuals under the age of 21 from owning, possessing, or controlling ammunition.
The Hawaii State House of Representatives passed SB2845 on May 1, 2024 by a vote of 45 to 6. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill expands Hawaii's blatantly unconstitutional firearms restrictions, which erode the rights of law-abiding adult gun owners. The Second Amendment expressly declares that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” without exception on account of age. Moreover, the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, in conjunction with the 26th Amendment, prevent “any State” from depriving or denying “any person,” such as “citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older,” of their “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
