Doctors Refusing to Write Note Required for Gun Permits in Hawaii:
Residents of Hawaii who want to get a gun permit are stuck in an endless circle of bureaucracy that stems from the medical profession refusing to get involved in the gun permit process.
The Honolulu Police Department is requiring a doctor’s note in order to give out a gun permit.
But both doctors and health insurance providers are refusing to comply, punting the matter back to the police department.
According to Hawaiinewsanow.com,
“There was no advance warning from anybody.
Kaiser, the gun stores, HPD — nobody.
You find out when you actually go to apply,” the West O’ahu man said.
He asked Hawaii News Now not use his name or image.
“I’ve been a legal gun owner since ’91. Rifles, shotguns, pistols. I even own an AR-15. No problemo. All of a sudden, problem,” he said.
HPD officers are now handing out a memo to gun permit applicants that states a doctor must sign a note on official letterhead stating the individual “shall own, possess, or control any firearm or ammunition and has been medically documented to be no longer adversely affected by the addiction, abuse, dependence, mental disease, disorder or defect”.
“It’s some kind of new legal mumbo jumbo about I have to admit that I was treated for mental or drug abuse which I have never done, so that would be a lie.
Kaiser says they won’t do it so you have to seek an outside doctor.
I did so, and they did not accept that doctor’s letter,” he said.
And if you think this is bad just wait until President Obama wields his executive powers to make sure Obamacare offers the same kind of stumbling blocks to those who wish to buy a gun or obtain a concealed carry permit..."
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