§134-3  Registration, mandatory, exceptions. (a)  Every person arriving in the State who brings or by any other mannercauses to be brought into the State a firearm of any description, whetherusable or unusable, serviceable or unserviceable, modern or antique, shallregister the firearm within three days after arrival of the person or of thefirearm, whichever arrives later, with the chief of police of the county of theperson's place of business or, if there is no place of business, the person'sresidence or, if there is neither a place of business nor residence, theperson's place of sojourn.  A nonresident alien may bring firearms nototherwise prohibited by law into the State for a continuous period not toexceed ninety days; provided that the person meets the registration requirementof this section and the person possesses:

(1)  A valid Hawaii hunting license procured underchapter 183D, part II, or a commercial or private shooting preserve permitissued pursuant to section 183D-34;

(2)  A written document indicating the person has beeninvited to the State to shoot on private land; or

(3)  Written notification from a firing range ortarget shooting business indicating that the person will actually engage intarget shooting.

The nonresident alien shall be limited to anontransferable registration of not more than ten firearms for the purpose ofthe above activities.

(b)  Every person who acquires a firearmpursuant to section 134-2 shall register the firearm in the manner prescribedby this section within five days of acquisition.  The registration shall be onforms prescribed by the attorney general, which shall be uniform throughout theState, and shall include the following information:  name of the manufacturerand importer; model; type of action; caliber or gauge; serial number; andsource from which receipt was obtained, including the name and address of theprior registrant.  If the firearm has no serial number, the permit number shallbe entered in the space provided for the serial number, and the permit numbershall be engraved upon the receiver portion of the firearm prior toregistration.  All registration data that would identify the individualregistering the firearm by name or address shall be confidential and shall notbe disclosed to anyone, except as may be required for processing theregistration or as may be required by a law enforcement agency for the lawfulperformance of its duties or as may be required by order of a court.

(c)  Dealers licensed under section 134-31 ordealers licensed by the United States Department of Justice shall registerfirearms pursuant to this section on registration forms prescribed by theattorney general and shall not be required to have the firearms physicallyinspected by the chief of police at the time of registration.

(d)  Registration shall not be required for:

(1)  Any device that is designed to fire loose blackpowder or that is a firearm manufactured before 1899;

(2)  Any device not designed to fire or made incapableof being readily restored to a firing condition; or

(3)  All unserviceable firearms and destructivedevices registered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms of theUnited States Department of Justice pursuant to Title 27, Code of FederalRegulations.

(e)  No fee shall be charged for theregistration. [L 1988, c 275, pt of §2; am L 1994, c 204, §4; am L 1999, c 217,§2; am L 2007, c 9, §7]