Hawaii firearm permits reach record level in 2013

[Jgarrick]

http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii-firearm-permits-reach-record-level-in-2013/25311236

HONOLULU —The Department of the Attorney General released its annual report on Thursday detailing statewide and county firearm registration statistics for calendar year 2013. A record total of 22,765 personal/private firearm permit applications were processed statewide during 2013, marking a 4.6 percent increase over the 21,864 applications processed in 2012. Of the applications processed in 2013, 94.6 percent were approved and resulted in issued permits; 4.3 percent were approved but subsequently voided after the applicants failed to return for their permits within the specified time period; and 1.0% were denied due to one or more disqualifying factors.

The 21,544 permits issued statewide in 2013 cover a total of 60,757 firearms registered in the State, a major, 20.6 per cent increase from the previous record of 50,394 firearms registered in 2012. Just over half (30,802, or 50.7 percent) of the firearms registered during 2013 were imported from out-of-state, with the remainder (29,955, or 49.3 percent) accounted for by transfers of firearms that were previously registered in Hawaii.

Firearm registration activity increased in 2013, continuing a pattern that has been recorded over the course of the 14 years for which these data have been compiled and reported. From 2000 through 2013, the number of statewide permit applications processed increased 350.8 percent, the number of firearms registered increased 446.2 percent, and the number of firearms imported increased 426.1 percent.

While there has been an increase in firearm registration activity in Hawaii since 2000, the number of firearm-related violent crimes and the proportion of violent crimes involving firearms relative to other weapon types remained low and stable through 2007 and subsequently decreased.

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Good news!

[Duckhunter935]

1. agree

some heads will explode over this

[SkatmanRoth]

2. This must be part of the backlash we have been told to expect.

Yep!

[ballyhoo]

3. When I was in LaHaina a few weeks

ago I actually saw people openly carrying firearms. I thought it kind of odd that I had not heard about it. I saw a lot of strange things in Maui, which I can't post here, but all-in-all it was a very relaxing place. People were real courteous. Even the police were courteous.

[NYC_SKP]

4. I've never seen that, but happy to hear about it. Was this sighting around Front Street or what?

I'm having trouble picturing it, as touristy as it is there.

I can more easily visualize open carry in Hilo or Kona, even Honolulu and definitely on Molokai.

Details, please.

[ballyhoo]

5. Yes, on Front Street across the street from Mick Fleetoods (Fleetwood Mac) new restaurant..

The other place was in front of the old courthouse also on Front Street, where people sit under the Banyan Tree. About four people there. I was going to take a picture but decided against it. A cop came and took a trouble-maker away but it didn't seem to bother the gun-wearers. These were external wears--not concealed. Finally, one at La Haina Fish House. I suppose that guy could have been a cop but he had a guitar next to him. Maybe they were all doing it illegally. I don't care; I never reported anyone. I mean one of the carriers was holding a parrot. I'm not going to send some guy to jail holding a parrot. Really, I don't fault anyone anymore, NYC. My wife and I are nearing 70. I just bought both of us Glock 27's. Except for military, first gun I ever owned. My wife has never owned one and refuses to shoot it--or even look at it. You should see the gun laws here in CA. You'd of thought we purchased a used Sherman Tank.

I've read your posts for years NYC_SKP. Sorry if the guns bother you. People are preparing for what's about to happen. Where you live, you may know more about it than me.

Hope I gave you what you wanted. I won't go back to Maui. It was beautiful and everything, and the people were real friendly. But I was never really relaxed. Plus it was real expensive.

Later

[NYC_SKP]

6. Maui is pretty but it's not my favorite island.

I think I like the big island most, it's big and sparsely populated and not touristy.

I'm not bothered by guns or open carry, I grew up where it wasn't unusual to see a person with a six-shooter on their hip, no big deal.

I no longer live in NYC, I'm in California now so I am pretty familiar with the laws, but I'm not much of a gun enthusiast, more of a gun rights supporter, like you.

Thanks for the details, I know the places you're describing. I've never seen guns except on Molokai where some folks had rifle cases, for boar hunting I guess, but have never seen open carry citizens, but I guess it's not hard to picture for Hawaii, even Lahaina. It would be weird if it had been at Kaanapali, I suppose, but Lahaina is very middle class regular peeps and tourists, not rich ones.

Again, thanks.

[ballyhoo]

7. I like the big island best. We've been there twice. Not a lot of people and wasn't too expensive. I

grew up in Cincinnati. I remember people carrying six-shooters. Even when the laws changed, carrying a six-shooter was only a minor misdemeanor. Well glad we talked. It's hard to find people to talk to here. It is like you are being sized-up. I've been in California since 1966. Came here from a drive-in movie in Cincinnati with some girl. We both stayed and went to school here, but I never kept in touch with her. I've been to NYC ten fifteen times as I had relatives in Jersey.

Talk to you later, ace. Keep the wind at your back.