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Senate committee hears split public testimony on bill to create Office of Gun Violence Prevention
Summary
Supporters told the committee the office is needed to gather cross‑disciplinary data to prevent gun violence; opponents said it duplicates existing work, risks partisan control and lacks firearms‑community input. The committee deferred decision to Feb. 13.
The Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs heard more than a dozen in‑person and Zoom testimonies for Senate Bill 3040, a proposal to establish a funded Office of Gun Violence Prevention to centralize data gathering and policy development.
Terri Ann Mohadin, a volunteer with the Hawaii chapter of Moms Demand Action, told the committee that better data were needed to understand whether crimes involve licensed owners, unlicensed firearms or ghost guns and to track trends…
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