Haw. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 15.08

[In Count (count number) of the Indictment/Complaint, the]

[The] Defendant, (defendant's name), is charged with the offense

of Possession of a Prohibited Weapon.

A person commits the offense of Possession of a Prohibited

Weapon if he/she possesses a prohibited weapon.

There are three material elements of the offense of

Possession of a Prohibited Weapon, each of which the prosecution

must prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

These three elements are:

1. That, on or about (date) in the [City and] County of

(name of county), the Defendant knowingly possessed the object

in question; and

2. That the object in question was a prohibited weapon;

and

3. That, at the time he/she possessed the object in

question, the Defendant believed, knew, or recklessly

disregarded the substantial and unjustifiable risk, that the

object was a prohibited weapon.

“Prohibited weapon” means an assault pistol*, an automatic

firearm, a rifle with a barrel length less than sixteen inches,

a shotgun with a barrel length less than eighteen inches, a

cannon, a muffler, a silencer, a device for deadening or

muffling the sound of discharged firearms, a hand grenade,

dynamite, a blasting cap, a bomb, a bombshell, or other

explosives.