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Righteous refund: The Sunshine Blog has been following the public plight of one local mom, Lucita Ani-Nihoa, whose daughter was gunned down in broad daylight at the Pearlridge Center just days before Christmas in 2023.

Like Ani-Nihoa, The Blog has been interested in the fact that Jason Cachuela used a so-called ghost gun to shoot and kill his wife, Theresa, and then himself. Doesn’t Hawaiʻi have super strong gun laws? Ani-Nihoa even paid the Honolulu Police Department more than $600 for the police reports on her daughter’s murder in order to get some answers more than a year after the killing.

But wait. That was after the Legislature

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