Gun regulation has always been a slippery slope, so it was only a matter of time until an extreme liberal proposed regulating things that aren’t firearms, as happened in Hawaii on May 12.
Hawaii Congresswoman Jill Tokuda proposed HB392, The Gun Hardware Oversight and Shipment Tracking Act of 2025, aka the “GHOST Act“, to regulate gun parts like the barrel, which is completely outside of the federal definition of a firearm.
The legislation will allow law enforcement to track gun parts coming into the state along with information on who ordered them.
The text of the new bill requires that before an “entity ships or transports in interstate or foreign commerce a covered firearm component,” the entity must register the shipment or transportation of the covered firearm component by submitting the “name, physical mailing address, phone number or electronic mail address, and the eligible identification number” of the entity and the intended recipient to the Federal Interstate Firearm Parts Reporting System.
And Hawaii law enforcement seems to be fully on board. “If you’re a legal gun owner, there will be no stopping of what you’re doing,” said Hawaii Dept. of Law Enforcement Director Mike Lambert, “[it] is just giving us a clue of where it went.”
Congresswoman Tokuda says you shouldn’t be concerned about law enforcement tracking the purchases of non-criminals and assures us it’s not an infringement, and you should get on board with it.
“This is something a legal gun owner should embrace because we all know the ones that are trying to be untraceable, they are the ones causing chaos on our streets,” Tokuda said. “This doesn’t infringe on ability or rights, it’s about accountability.”
There was no mention during the press conference about her oath or accountability to the Constitution.
