IMHO
The hotels should be happy that there would be a shooting range nearby.
It would give guests a recreational option to golf and breathing volcanic sulfur fumes.
Shooting sport seems pretty popular with Waikiki tourists.
As usual OF you are right on the money. In the 90's the then Hawaii Visitors Bureau published the results of a poll taken on the things that tourists
would like to do while visiting Hawaii. Among the Asian tourists, shooting a fire arm was a very high priority thing to do. It ranked above golf. This list was
published in our local newspaper.
About a couple of months later I noticed that the same organization testified that more restrictive gun laws needed to be passed by our legislature in order to
protect tourists and the industry. I called up the then HVB and left a message for the PR lady that promoted the passing of more gun laws. To her credit she called me back
The discussion was civil until I told her about the poll taken by HVB. I also stated how ranges in Hawaii and Guam cater to the tourists and are legitimate and profitable business.
These facts did not matter to her at all. Facts be damned. She had her own agenda and got angrier the more I told her how the tourists really enjoyed these ranges. I thanked her for
letting me speak and ended the call.