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Hawaii becomes first state to put gun owners in federal database

How is this not in violation of the Firearm Owners Protection Act:

No such rule or regulation prescribed [by the Attorney General] after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or disposition be established. Nothing in this section expands or restricts the Secretary's authority to inquire into the disposition of any firearm in the course of a criminal investigation.

The argument will be the Feds are not establishing the registry, the state of Hawaii is.
 
The argument will be the Feds are not establishing the registry, the state of Hawaii is.

Except it is being "put into an FBI database" according to the OP. If the FBI is running it, it's a federal database, contrary to FOPA.
 
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