I'm a little late this year in getting this out as I try to have this done as soon as the numbers are posted. This year seems to have taken a lot out of me. But I digress...
The numbers of PTAs and registrations are way down compared to previous years.
From the report itself:
Registrations and Importations"The 16,147 permits issued statewide in 2024 cover a total of 44,624 firearms registered throughout the year, resulting in a 13.9% decrease from 51,807 firearms registered during 2023. Approximately half (26,267, or 50.7%) of the firearms registered during 2024 were imported from out-of-state, with the balance accounted for by transfers of firearms that were previously registered in Hawai‘i. Independent estimates made during the late-1990s by the Department of the Attorney General and the Honolulu Police Department conservatively placed the number of privately owned firearms in Hawai‘i at somewhere over one million. Adding to that during the 2000 through 2024 period, a total of 902,643 firearms were registered (including some more than once, by different owners) and 470,250 were imported, while an unknown number of firearms permanently left the state."
Also, because we now have Concealed Carry in our state, they are publishing a separate report related to CCW.
All current and previous firearms related reports can be found on the CPJAD website
https://ag.hawaii.gov/cpja/rs/firearms/PDF and PNG files are attached.
If you care to go back and look, some of the previous years posts are here:
https://2ahawaii.com/index.php?topic=53844.msg483343#msg483343https://2ahawaii.com/index.php?topic=37086.msg330740#msg330740https://2ahawaii.com/index.php?topic=31551.msg278509#msg278509 