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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 1933 Haw. Sess. Laws 36-37, An Act Regulating the Sale, Transfer, and Possession of Firearms and Ammunition, § 3(General Publisher, 1933)Required every person residing in or doing business within the territory to register any firearm of any description or any ammunition within ten days to the chief of police of Honolulu or the county sheriff where the possessor resides. Violators shall be punished by fine of no more than two hundred and fifty dollars.Item Open Access 1927 Haw. Sess. Laws 209-217, AN ACT Regulating the Sale, Transfer and Possession of Certain Firearms and Ammunitions, and Amending Sections 2136, 2137, 2138, 2139, 2140, 2141, 2142, 2143, 2146 and 2147 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii 1925 (the "Small Arms Act"), §§ 25-26(General Publisher, 1927)Amended the prior requirements for obtaining a license and punishments for violating license requirements.Item Open Access 1927 Haw. Sess. Laws 209-217, AN ACT Regulating the Sale, Transfer and Possession of Certain Firearms and Ammunitions, and Amending Sections 2136, 2137, 2138, 2139, 2140, 2141, 2142, 2143, 2146 and 2147 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii 1925 (the "Small Arms Act"), § 21(General Publisher, 1927)Required the furnishment of a list of all firearms and ammunition in one's possession to the sheriff. Required the sheriff to inspect shops, stores, warehouses, and other business premises of such dealers to verify the accuracy of the reports.Item Open Access 1927 Haw. Sess. Laws 209-217, AN ACT Regulating the Sale, Transfer and Possession of Certain Firearms and Ammunitions, and Amending Sections 2136, 2137, 2138, 2139, 2140, 2141, 2142, 2143, 2146 and 2147 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii 1925 (the "Small Arms Act"), § 20(General Publisher, 1927)Required the sheriff to keep books containing all information furnished to him relative to ownership, acquisition, importation, delivery, and possession of firearms and ammunition. Copies of the book will be made for the Governor twice per year.Item Open Access 1927 Haw. Sess. Laws 209-217, AN ACT Regulating the Sale, Transfer and Possession of Certain Firearms and Ammunitions, and Amending Sections 2136, 2137, 2138, 2139, 2140, 2141, 2142, 2143, 2146 and 2147 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii 1925 (the "Small Arms Act"), § 18, § 26(General Publisher, 1927)Punished those failing to report possession of firearms or ammunition as a misdemeanor.Item Open Access Revised Laws of Hawaii 1925, 791-92 (1925) § 2137(General Publisher, 1925)The sheriff shall have to duty to have proper blank forms to fill in personal information of applicants.