By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Hawaii is poised to become the first state in the nation to enter gun owners into an FBI database.
The Associated Press reports that the database would immediately notify police when a Hawaiian resident is arrested in another state.
In other states, people who are entered into the “Rap Back” database are in “positions of trust,” such as school officials, said Stephen Fischer of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division.
“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.”
Supporters of the law say Hawaii would be safer with the database.
