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Item Open Access 1884 Compiled Laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom, at 86, Of the Safekeeping of Gunpowder § 354 (1884)(General Publisher, 1884)Granted the Minister of the Interior the authority to make regulations on the storing, keeping, and transportation of gunpowder in the Kingdom. Prohibited the violation of these regulations.Item Open Access 1884 Compiled Laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom, at 539, An Act to License the Carrying of Fowling Pieces and Other Fire Arms(General Publisher, 1884)The general and indiscriminate use of fire-arms, which are frequently used for the destruction of useful, imported and migratory insectivorous birds and their progeny, is an injury to the agricultural and pastoral interests of this Kingdom, therefore, Be it Enacted by the King and Legislative Assembly of the Hawaiian Islands in the Legislature of the Kingdom assembled: § 1. That the Minister of the Interior may at any time license for a term of one year, any applicant for such license, to use and carry fire-arms for sporting purposes, in the District of Kona, Island of Oahu, on receiving for such license the sum of five dollars. § 2. Any person in said district who shall use or carry for sporting purposes, any gun, carbine, rifle, pistol, or other fire-arms, without having at first obtained a license as hereinbefore provided, shall, upon conviction therefor, before any police or district justice, be fined in a sum not to exceed fifty dollars for every such offense, and in default of payment of such sum, shall be imprisoned at hard labor, until such fine and costs are paid, according to law.Item Open Access 1870 Haw. Sess. Laws 26, An Act to License the Carrying of Fowling Pieces and Other Fire-arms, chap. 20, §§ 1 to 3(General Publisher, 1870)Required a license from the Minister of the Interior to use or carry for sporting purposes any gun, carbine, rifle, pistol, or other fire-arms. Licenses were priced at five dollars. Violators fined fifty dollars for every offense. Failure to pay the fine led to imrpisonment at hard labour.Item Open Access 1852 Haw. Sess. Laws 19,§ 1(General Publisher, 1852)Prohibited the carry of any Bowie-knife, sword-cane, air gun, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon. Violators fined no less than ten but no more than thirty dollars.Item Open Access Penal Laws of the Hawaiian Islands, 1897, Compiled From the Penal Code of 1869 and the Session Laws of 1870 to 1896 Inclusive 251 (1897), ch. 54(General Publisher, 1896)Prohibited the carry of any Bowie-knife, sword-cane, pistol, air-gun, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon if not authorized by law. Violators fined no less than ten but no more than thirty dollars and imprisonment in hard labor camps no less than fifteen days but not exceeding two months. Note: Hawaii did not become US territory until 1898.Item Open Access 1933 Haw. Sess. Laws 39, An Act Regulating the Sale, Transfer, and Possession of Firearms and Ammunition, § 8(General Publisher, 1933)Required license for concealed carry of pistol, firearm, or ammunition; prohibits issuance of license to felony convicts or mentally ill; violators subject to fine or imprisonment.Item Open Access 1933 Haw. Sess. Laws 39-40, An Act Regulating the Sale, Transfer, and Possession of Firearms and Ammunition, §§ 10-16(General Publisher, 1933)If a person committing a crime of violence or attempting to to commit a crime of violence is armed unlawfully, that shall be treated as prima facie evidence of intent to commit said crime of violence. Firearms possessed contrary to the act shall be forfeited to the territory. Permits may be revoked under this act.Item Open Access 1933 Haw. Sess. Laws 38, An Act Regulating the Sale, Transfer, and Possession of Firearms and Ammunition, § 9(General Publisher, 1933)Prohibited the alteration, removal, obliteration or the make, model, manufacturer's number, or other mark of identity of any firearm or ammunition. Prohibited possession of such firearms or ammunition. Violators fined not more than five hundred dolars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both fine and imprisonment.Item Open Access 1933 Haw. Sess. Laws 38, An Act Regulating the Sale, Transfer, and Possession of Firearms and Ammunition, § 6(General Publisher, 1933)Prohibited individuals convicted of violent crimes from owning, possessing, or having under their control a pistol, revolver, or ammunition.Item Open Access 1933 Haw. Sess. Laws 38, An Act Regulating the Sale, Transfer, and Possession of Firearms and Ammunition, § 5(General Publisher, 1933)Allowed any person who acquired a hunting licensed, and while actively engaged in hunting, to carry and use any lawfully acquired rifle or shotgun and suitable aumminition for said weapons.